Storm is coming
In Shang Jingyan’s previous life, every netizen has probably read a similar urban legend:
Late at night, when you were driving on a dark road, you saw a woman with long hair in white and red clothes stopping your car. You gave her a ride, but you found that you couldn't see her in the rearview mirror.
Looking back now, I will probably remember that there is a xx cemetery next to the road I passed yesterday.
The reason why urban legends are so popular is that they make everyone feel involved. Although they are tacky, everyone gets a chill down their spine when they hear about them for the first time.
For the StarCraft audience, this is how "Village Girl" starts.
For some reason, the hem of the woman's red skirt was stained with dirt, she was barefoot, and there were many wounds on her calves and arms.
The wounds were layered, some new and some old, and were obviously not caused by simply walking barefoot in the mountains. They looked extremely creepy.
The hand she knocked on the car window had slender fingers with red nail polish, but the nail polish was badly peeled and there was dirt in the gaps between the nails.
[This figure... looks like she just crawled out of the ground! Help, is this a human or a ghost? Don't let her get in the car! ]
[But what if it's a human? It's not good to leave her here like this. She has so many wounds...]
Lan's mother seemed to find it strange, and whispered a Buddhist prayer, but she still kindly asked, "Little girl, what's wrong with you?"
The woman in red did not answer her question at all. She repeated the question in a calm tone, as if every word was filled with chill: "Can you give me a ride to Lanjia Village? I have friends waiting for me there."
Lan Qing really wanted to say no, who knows if this is a human or a ghost?
But her words were restricted. Lan's mother was a soft-hearted person. She couldn't bear to leave a young woman in this remote place, so she said, "Come up."
After getting permission, the woman slowly sat on the back seat. Sister Lan couldn't help but shrink to the side, as if she felt the coldness of her body.
Lu Zibing wanted to cry but had no tears, he also wanted to shrink to the side!
There was no conversation along the way and the car continued to drive on the winding mountain road.
Lan Qing looked out the window with a very unfamiliar expression. Obviously, this was a world that had been tampered with by the system, and she didn't recognize her hometown village at all.
Lanjia Village seemed to be located in a very remote area. The road ahead ended and turned into a dirt road.
Lan Qing had been staring at the woman in the back seat, and saw her take out a stack of bills from her wallet.
"Stop the car," she suddenly said, "You can't enter Lanjia Village."
Lan's mother was stunned, but she still explained in a gentle voice: "Our destination is also Lanjia Village."
The woman looked up, and the rearview mirror reflected her eyes, which were as dark as a deep pool. Lu Zibing's whole body froze as he looked at her, and he didn't even dare to glance towards the front of his car.
She didn't say anything else. Mother Lan drove the car onto the dirt road, got out and checked the tires with her little daughter. Lan Qing's eyes subconsciously shifted.
However, during this moment of missed contact, when he looked back, the woman in the back seat had disappeared!
The seats were empty, with only a stack of banknotes scattered around.
In the middle of the day, Lan's mother's face turned pale because of this strange scene, but in her cognition, she was still in an ordinary world. She said to herself as if to convince herself: "She got off the car just now? I didn't hear the door open..."
There were woods on both sides of the road. Did she hide in the forest after getting off the car?
Lan Qing had a grim expression on her face and urged her mother and sister to get in the car quickly.
Sister Lan put the money away and said curiously, "How can someone carry so much cash with him these days?"
It took them more than an hour to reach Lanjia Village, and it was already past noon in the car. The road became more difficult to drive on, and the car body was inevitably scratched.
When we were at the entrance of the village, the car was stopped by an old man, who must be the lookout for the village.
He seemed a little surprised that such a car appeared here. He questioned the three people about their origins and showed a thoughtful expression: "Okay, condolences, okay..."
Just as he was about to let them in, the old man's expression suddenly changed: "What did you bring in the car?!"
He spoke in a rapid tone, like a string of bullets, which frightened Sister Lan, "Did you pick up a woman on the road? Did you accept her money? She is not a human being. That is money for her life, you can't accept it!"
Sister Lan subconsciously retorted: "How is that possible? I just..."
She was stuck before she could finish her words, and what she took out from her pocket was a handful of snow-white paper money with square holes!
"Oh my god!" Lu Zibing couldn't help but yelled, his whole body covered with goose bumps, and he felt a chill on the back of his neck. The driver in front of him also collapsed and said, "Oh my god, young man, what are you looking at?!"
[Oh my god, that woman must be a ghost! ! ]
[Ahhh, I think I've found this saying in folk horror, you can't just take things from ghosts, especially money, because that would mean you've made a deal with it QAQ]
——The banknotes turned into ghost money in a blink of an eye. This is also a very classic plot in horror movies, and it has been used to death in Shang Jingyan’s previous life.
However, the Star People had never seen this.
Lu Zibing's face turned green. In order to avoid bad signal when he returned to his hometown this time, he even brought cash with him!
Mother Lan was horrified. Sister Lan's hands trembled as she was about to throw the paper money away, but Lan Qing caught it: "It's too late to throw it away now. It might even anger the other party. Let me keep it."
The old man shook his head and said, "Thanks for coming to our village! Come with me, our river god will protect you."
Lu Zibing's mind, which had been frozen by shock, started to work again. This village believed in the river god?
The name of the copy is "Mountain Village Nvba". Ba is the daughter of Huangdi in legend. She was originally a goddess in heaven, but after falling to the earth, she became a monster that caused drought and created thousands of miles of barren land.
It can be said that it is exactly the opposite of the "River God".
Someone in the barrage also noticed this and speculated that they could safely pass through this copy with the protection of the river god.
The car drove into Lanjia Village, and it seemed out of place with all the old things here. Lu Zibing began to worry about one thing. The car on the previous calendar seemed to be fueled by oil, not solar energy. So would they have enough oil to drive back out of the village?
The villagers stared at the car, and the camera swept across their eyes. Lu Zibing had never felt that the eyes of "people" could be so terrifying, as if they were some kind of numb beast.
Xenophobia... Yes, that's the word! The atmosphere in this village is extremely closed and xenophobic.
There is a small river god temple at the entrance of the village. When the car passed by, the audience saw the statue of the river god inside.
It actually had a fish head on the upper body and human legs on the lower body, which was extremely strange. It was wearing the wide robe and sleeves of an ancient god, stepping on the waves, and holding a baby and a lot of shells and coins in its arms.
[sos, this design reminds me of the last instance, ptsd is going to happen!!]
[The shape is so rough, the colors are all faded, and the stiff eyes are so scary...]
As the camera panned across, the fish eyes of the river god statue seemed to be looking at the audience.
After getting off the car, Lan's mother seemed to be frightened and held her head: "Hey? Strange, why can't I remember where the old house is..."
[She didn't forget, but the implanted memory was wrong. ]
[In fact, I previously thought that these two people might be fake, but now I am more inclined to believe that they are really Lan Qing's family. The protagonist's copy is not good. To put it bluntly, it is just two more weak points and burdens! ]
Lan Qing was very calm and asked the old man directly: "Excuse me, do you know where Grandma Lan is?"
The old man nodded and called a young man over to lead the way. The man was surprised and asked quickly: "Are you sure? Is there anyone who came to pay tribute to that crazy woman... old woman?"
Lan Qing frowned, and the old man poked him hard with his elbow, signaling him to stop talking. He smiled innocently and said no more.
Behind the few people were a number of onlookers. Grandma Lan's home was in a remote corner of the village. The young man said that she had always lived alone, had a strange temper, and never let anyone get close to her.
"I didn't expect that she has a daughter and two granddaughters out there."
Lu Zibing had never seen such a dilapidated house in his life. It was countless times more simple than the mansion of "Rouge Comb" in ancient times.
The door was just three wooden boards put together. When Lan Qing opened the door, a large number of black flies and insects flew out. Sister Lan was caught off guard and saw what was inside the house. She screamed in fright!
The coffin in the house was opened, and there was nothing inside. Grandma Lan was lying on a broken bed stuffed with straw!
Her eyes were wide open, as if she had died with her eyes open. The crowd watching were frightened by this scene and started shouting.
"Huh?! This crazy woman didn't have her eyes open when she died!"
"Hasn't her body been put into the coffin?"
"This is... this is a fake corpse!"
Lan Qing looked around and saw that her mother and sister were pale and the people around them had different expressions.
The audience heard her inner thoughts: It is late spring now, and corpses are not easy to preserve. It looks like Grandma Lan has been dead for no more than two days.
But judging from the road signs on the national highway, it would take them at least three days to drive here. So how did they know in advance that "grandma" had died? ...
Lu Zibing almost cried after hearing this. What is a zombie? Will he turn into a zombie?
Why is it that every time he thinks he can withstand Director Shang's terror, Director Shang will bring him a new critical strike? !
It is difficult to tell Grandma Lan’s age from her face. You could say she is in her fifties, or you could say she is in her seventies or eighties. Her face looks old and particularly hideous, and her body is extremely skinny.
Flies crawled all over her eyes and skin, making her feel sick.
The villagers all tried to avoid them. The young man stammered, "According to the rules, you have to change her into shrouds. No one has done this before... I know, this must be why she died restlessly! Hurry up and put them on her!"
The comments were already filled with tears from the beginning, and now they were even more explosive:
[Can you not change? ? This is too weird, she won't sit up in the middle of it! ]
[Aaaaah, there are obviously no bloody scenes, but I feel that this is scarier than having the protagonist rush into a monster's mouth! ]
With a loud crash, the white shroud was thrown towards Lan Qing and the other two.
The wooden door was closed again, and the first episode came to an abrupt end.
"How long are you going to watch here?"
"Hey? Hey, I was distracted..."
Lu Zibing was suddenly brought back to his senses by the driver, and only then did he feel himself free from the chill.
He arrived at his hometown. In fact, as an interstellar settlement, that village, no matter how backward it was, was far superior to the Lanjia Village on the screen.
But he didn't dare to get out of the car, and he just sat in the back seat: "Driver, my legs suddenly cramped, can you let me slow down..."
The driver was merciless: "Time is up, this order is over!"
She asked Lu Zibing to get out of the car, stepped on the accelerator, and rode away as if there was a ghost chasing her from behind.
Lu Zibing stretched out his hand: "..."
You must be scared too, right? !
The first episode of "Village Girl" was aired, and it did not suffer the reputational setback that the anti-fans expected, but instead sparked discussion.
No one expected that Director Shang could actually come up with new ideas!
The essence of so-called Chinese horror lies in the terrifying experience that occurs in a confined environment.
In fact, the first episode did not show any direct horror scenes, at most there were only corpses, but everyone could see that something was wrong with Lanjia Village.
Closed villages, xenophobic villagers, strange beliefs, bizarre events, an isolated protagonist... together they create a terrifying atmosphere that makes it hard to breathe.
What secrets does Lanjia Village hold?
What happened to Lan Qing's world, and can her family recover?
This is the issue that all viewers are most concerned about now.
【What about those who said that the market would definitely open high and close low? Come out and slap yourself in the face.】
[Starting data: [link], this is called Waterloo? Then how do you make the other four-star dream builders feel? ]
The haters covered their faces which were bruised with soft tissue and kept talking stubbornly.
[Haha, it’s only one episode, what can we tell? ]
[It created such a mysterious atmosphere, and it was hilarious when the answer was revealed to be stupid.]
After Shang Jingyan was promoted to four stars, he attracted more hatred. However, the reason why the black fans are so arrogant recently is that the "Executive" awards ceremony is approaching.
As a hot favorite for the best award of the year, her haters were so worried that they tried their best to discredit her before the awards ceremony.
As a result, the "Executive" program team took advantage of the situation to warm up the show and made #Dream Building Executive Awards# a hot search, and listed it together with #Mountain Village Female Ba#.
Shang Jingyan himself did not take the various public opinions from the outside world seriously.
After meeting with Deborah on Ferry Star, she returned to Dragon Sea and met with Sister Cui again.
——In the second half of the meeting with Deborah that day, she also learned some scattered things about the Zhenwu Group, its establishment and members.
Therefore, when Shang Jingyan saw Cui Yunting again, he felt a little complicated.
It turns out that Cui Yunting was also invited by the Zhenwu Group that year, but did not participate.
And the person sent by the Zhenwu Group to contact her was Shang Song.
They knew each other, and perhaps admired each other, but they had never actually met in person, and had only met in the star network and the spiritual network.
It was not until later that Shang Song sadly left the Zhenwu Group due to internal strife within the organization and came to settle in the Exile Galaxy in a self-exiled state that he had an intersection with Cui Yunting.
This paragraph was what Cui Yunting once said to Shang Jingyan. When Shang Song was in the Exile Galaxy, Cui Yunting took him to play shooting, and he also met Shang Jingyan's biological father.
Unfortunately, these may not have saved her from her decadence. She later abandoned the young Shang Jingyan and left alone, leaving behind her body and death certificate. But in fact, her life or death and whereabouts are still unknown.
Cui Yunting is a cautious person. Although she is younger than Shang Song, she seems to have a longer-term vision than Shang Song. She was unwilling to join the Zhenwu Group because she thought it was unreliable, and Shang Song's experience seems to have proved her point of view from the side.
What’s amazing is that when Shang Jingyan was young, he joined the mysterious organization that his mother once belonged to without knowing it.
Although this mother and daughter rarely have emotional exchanges and have never even told each other about their ideals and thoughts, they are actually extremely similar in essence.
It was not difficult to talk to Cui Yunting about all this. Cui Yunting, wearing flip-flops and lying on a beach chair with his legs crossed, said: "I didn't help her back then and joined that stupid organization. Now I should help you."
Shang Jingyan reached some consensus with Deblène on the secret plan formulated by her.
Gamma Galaxy, Dragon Sea.
There were countless electronic screen frames floating in front of Shang Jingyan, with messy notes on them. These were her preparations for her next new work.
And at the top of these light screens there are four words - "King of Stars".
This is the name of the new work.
Out of some intuition and caution, Shang Jingyan completely blocked the system during the preparation period. Even X71 only knew his name and occasionally helped her look up some information.
She took off her goggles, rubbed her temples, and leaned back in her chair in an ungraceful manner.
A message popped up on the private communication page: Manager Pei: [Director Shang, your birthday is in February. Are you going back to the main system?]
Shang Jingyan was stunned, then he remembered that February 14th was almost here.
It is her birthday and also Valentine's Day on the official calendar.
On this day, each dream builder will launch an event, and the few days before and after are the times when the love atmosphere is the strongest.
She casually checked the movies that were about to be released nearby and found that even now when horror movies were all the rage, 90% of them were romance films.
The remaining 10% is also due to similar reasons - couples can easily enhance their relationship by watching horror movies and playing in horror houses because of the suspension bridge effect.
Shang Jingyan left the horror park to the Su and Xue families and had not paid attention to its performance for a long time. He went up to take a look and saw that the tickets for Valentine's Day had been sold out long ago, and most of them were sold in pairs: "..."
Unfortunately, the award ceremony for "Dream Builders" was held the day before Valentine's Day.
"I do have to go back, but I'm going to attend awards ceremonies like "The Executive" and so on, so I may not have time to celebrate my birthday." She replied regretfully.
Shang Jingyan had been a busy person since her previous life, and it was common for her to forget her birthday. After becoming famous, she no longer liked to hold lavish celebrations, and usually just had a small gathering with close friends.
Moreover, the downside of having a birthday on the same day as a holiday is that she is often very busy on that day - after all, Valentine's Day has always been a big box office for horror movies.
Manager Pei: [I know. I want to make a birthday cake and bring it to the ceremony. After the ceremony, you can come backstage and eat it. How about that?]
In the Capital Star, Angora Rabbit Tea House, Pei Yi held a rabbit in his arms, pinching its paws unconsciously.
Now his spirit body will not run out, but after living with it for so many years, he always felt that something was missing, so he bought a pet rabbit.
[Don't come,]
[The other party withdrew a message.]
[You don’t have to come. If you really want to celebrate your birthday with me, you can go back to the Exile Galaxy and wait for me (Black Rabbit rests his chin on his hand). I will go back after I finish.]
Pei Yi was slightly stunned. He could feel that Shang Jingyan almost subconsciously wanted to stop him from going over. He even typed the punctuation incorrectly in his haste. He only reorganized his words after he withdrew.
Why?
Pei Yi frowned slightly, not for anything else, but just a little worried. He knew Shang Jingyan was hiding something from him, and the last drowning accident didn't seem to be an accident.
Somewhere he didn't know, she seemed to be fighting against something - Pei Yi had this premonition for no reason.
Shang Jingyan said that she would immediately set off back to the Exiled Galaxy after the award ceremony, which also seemed very hasty.
By then, "Village Girl" will not be finished yet. Being separated by a galaxy, it will be very troublesome for some supporting actors to shoot. The best option is actually to wait until "Infinite Heartbeat" is completed before "returning home in glory".
Moreover, Lianmeng University invited Shang Jingyan to be a special guest lecturer, and she needs to stay here for a full year before leaving - and it has not even been a year yet.
It was okay for her to travel during the Spring Festival holiday, but if she wanted to go back to the Exile Galaxy afterwards, she would have to take a leave.
...Does her attitude mean that she can predict what "accidents" will happen at the awards ceremony?
Pei Yi stroked the rabbit's fur and did not ask these questions. Instead, he said: "Okay, I'll go back to my hometown and wait for you. Do you have any patterns you like? I'll use them to make cakes. 】
[Black Sheep, Pan.] Without hesitation, the other party said, [This is my favorite pattern.]
Pei Yi knew that Shang Jingyan had a black sheep totem tattoo on her arm, which was mysterious and dangerous. It was the god in charge of fear, and her profile picture was also a silhouette of Pan.
This is not suitable for buttercream, it is too delicate, and it needs to be carved with harder sugar, which is very time-consuming. But he agreed immediately: [Then it's settled, I will set up the candles and wait for you to light and blow them out^^]
Pei Yi replied to this line and began to search for a ticket to return to the Exiled Galaxy.
On the other side of the interface were the tickets he had bought for the "Executive" awards ceremony. Pei Yi hesitated for a moment and clicked to refund them.
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