Bi.Xian stood beside Chang Gu with a confused look on her face. She didn't understand what was going on. Everyone was auditioning just now, and she just made a few expressions according to what Chang Gu said.
"I didn't expect that the first person to debut in my haunted house would be Bi Xian. My careful teaching is worth it." Chen Ge looked at Bi Xian with great satisfaction, and then asked, "Has the male lead been decided?"
"I'm a little confused about the male lead. In terms of acting skills, your employee named Zhou is really amazing. His acting skills are better than all the actors I've worked with. The problem is that he's too old. Ours is a campus youth comedy, and he's more or less fine playing the heroine's father." Chang Gu looked at Old Zhou and Bai Qiulin who were deliberately walking around, and sighed helplessly: "To be honest, the most suitable person to play the male lead in your haunted house is Xu Yin. His eyes seem to contain a sea of sadness, and he has a natural melancholy. His age is also relatively suitable. The most important thing is that his appearance can almost 'slaughter' most male actors of the same age. This is simply the fate of the protagonist!"
"Then let Xu Yin play the male lead." Chen Ge didn't care who played the male lead. He hoped that Xu Yin could slowly walk out of his own world through this experience and see the scenery outside. Among all the employees of the haunted house, Xu Yin was the most loyal. In order to protect Chen Ge, he almost lost his soul several times, so no matter what, Chen Ge wanted to help Xu Yin regain hope.
"Since you agree, then you can have a good talk with him and do some ideological work on him. The male lead has a lot of lines, and he keeps repeating 'It hurts so much' over and over again." Chang Gu was a little afraid of Xu Yin, and didn't dare to speak too loudly to her.
"Some things can't be forced. How about you try to shorten the male lead's lines, or use another form to express the male lead?"
"It's difficult. After all, we are different from those adaptation teams on the market that don't respect the original works. We have to be worthy of the deceased writers." Chang Gu is still very professional in some aspects.
"Okay, I'll go talk to him later." Chen Ge followed Chang Gu and walked between the two scenes of the Psychic Ghost School and Muyang Middle School. "Have other slightly more important roles been chosen? I promised an employee before that I would help her film a movie. Her name is Duan Yue, and she was an English teacher before her death."
"The sponsor forced people into the crew? This scene seems familiar to me." Chang Gu wanted to refuse, but after recalling Duan Yue, he changed his mind: "I remembered that the female teacher's acting skills are also great, how about letting her be the heroine's homeroom teacher? In the original book, this homeroom teacher has been helping the heroine, and later she was with the heroine's father."
"Oh my god, if Old Zhou hears this story, he will probably die of laughter again." Chen Ge nodded: "You'd better communicate with Duan Yue again to see if she is willing."
"OK, let me tell you about the remaining roles as well." Chang Gu is very capable, and the roles he chooses are well matched with the actors' own personalities. They don't even require much acting skills, and they can interpret the roles well as long as they are themselves.
Excluding the extras, there are a total of nine important characters. The plot of this youth comedy is actually not complicated. It mainly tells the story of a girl from a single-parent family who gets out of depression with the help of her father and school.
This is a story about youth and also a story about growth. It is full of positive energy but also the pain that is necessary for maturity.
A series of ridiculous little things make up a clever story.
The story is not long, has strong drama, clear conflicts, and is relatively easy to shoot. These are the reasons why Chang Gu chose this work to shoot.
"Hurry up and shoot. I'll leave the rest to you. It's best to get it done within a week." Chen Ge didn't know when the cursed hospital would come to find him. It would only benefit him if he could gain Zhang Wenyu's trust as soon as possible.
"I didn't expect that after death, I could devote myself to doing what I like. It's really ironic. Don't worry, I will never let you down." Chang Gu gave Chen Ge a "military order" and let Chen Ge see the result within five days.
Chen Ge also felt that Chang Gu was a reliable person, so he did not ask any more questions and left it to Chang Gu.
He was just an ordinary person, and couldn't be compared with the evil ghost or the man in red. After staying up for most of the night, he was extremely sleepy.
Chen Ge had just left the underground scene and Chang Gu was about to take pictures when a short figure secretly grabbed Chang Gu's clothes.
Chang Gu was startled and turned his head. He found a man in red clothes who was just up to his knees looking at him.
"Are all the people in red running around in this place?" Chang Gu froze in place. He found that Chen Ge's horror house was even more terrifying than the Psychic Ghost School.
"Director Chang, my name is Men Nan. Do you think there is any role that is suitable for me? I have wanted to see myself on TV since I was a child. This is one of my dreams."
Chang Gu could ignore the child's request, but it would be a completely different story if the child was in red.
"No problem. How about I give you the role of the heroine's younger brother? It's in the original novel, but he doesn't have many scenes."
"It doesn't matter how many parts you have, as long as you show your face." Men Nan left contentedly, and Chang Gu also breathed a sigh of relief. He took a step and was about to move forward when he suddenly shuddered and smelled a strong smell of blood.
Looking back, he saw a female ghost in red holding her own head standing at the corner and staring at him.
Without saying a word, he stared at Chang Gu with the head in his arms.
"Hello..." Chang Gu used honorifics directly. He walked over with his head held high, because he felt that it would be safer to walk over on his own initiative rather than having the other person follow him.
The headless female ghost could understand Chang Gu’s meaning, but the accumulated resentment and hatred made her not good at expressing her thoughts.
"Do you want to act in a movie too? I have a role that suits you. You don't need to say anything, just give your blessing silently."
Chang Gu's face turned pale and he spoke cautiously. Filming in other places costs money, but filming here is life-threatening!
The headless female ghost didn't say anything, she just tapped the head a few times and then left.
Chang Gu didn't breathe a sigh of relief until the headless female ghost walked away: "I have to start working quickly, so that no other red-clothed people will come looking for me later."
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At eight o'clock in the morning, the first thing Chen Ge did after getting up was to enter the underground scene. He first informed Chang Gu that all filming would be done at night, and the haunted house would still be open during the day.
The employees of Ligui did not need to rest. They had been shooting for a whole night and are still very excited. They are all ready to welcome tourists. They are very dedicated to their work.
The employees returned to their respective jobs, while Chang Gu took advantage of the daytime to start editing the videos shot at night. He could work all night long and continue editing. This director is really amazing.
At 8:15, Xu Wan and the others arrived one after another. Chen Ge put makeup on them and then went into the staff lounge alone.
He sorted out the last wishes of the suicides from Zhang Wenyu's side. Most of these suicides were concentrated in the northern and southern suburbs of Hanjiang, and some died at the junction of Xinhai and Hanjiang.
"Are there so many people?" Chen Ge printed out all the information, stuffed it into his backpack, and prepared to go out during the day to help Zhang Wenyu fulfill the wishes of some of the suicide victims.
Most of the suicide wishes were not complicated, but there were some wishes that Zhang Wenyu, the man in red, could not handle.
Before he even walked out the door, his cell phone rang again.
I clicked the answer button and Director Luo's voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Chen Ge, I have received two pieces of news. Be prepared."
"What news?" Chen Ge sensed something was wrong in Director Luo's words.
"There have been changes in the top management of Virtual Future Park. Jiang Jiu is in the hospital, and now they are completely in charge of a man named Ma Feng. I know this man very well. He is very capable and young, but he rose to the top very quickly. He is decisive and ruthless. People below him call him the Quick Knife Hand."
"Ma Feng?"
"He is very capable, but because he does things without leaving any room for maneuver, he has offended many people. If Jiang Jiu had not been accidentally hospitalized this time, it would not have been his turn to step forward."
"Does this person need our attention?" Chen Ge knew why Jiang Jiu was hospitalized, but he did not expect a chain reaction.
"Ma Feng is interested in profit. He opposed Jiang Jiu's various plans from the beginning, thinking they were a waste. Now that he is in power, he will definitely fight back against us again. If he makes achievements, it means that Jiang Jiu is incompetent. If he doesn't make achievements, he will probably give up the haunted house and related projects of the Virtual Future Park and stop competing with us in the same category."
"Isn't this a good thing? As long as we hurt him, he will behave himself. I guess in the future, the two parks will coexist, and they will never think of squeezing us out again."
"Malls are like battlefields, where the winner takes all. The Virtual Future Park has at most temporarily given up on squeezing us out. But being able to gain this period of time is already very beneficial to us. I will not sit still and wait for death. Our park has already started to upgrade." Director Luo's words revealed an important message: "By then, we will have what they have, and we will also have what they don't have. If you were a tourist, what would you choose?"
"Of course they chose us." Chen Ge didn't realize until now that Director Luo's so-called winner takes all actually meant that he wanted to swallow up the Virtual Future Park.
"It won't take too long. You will have to work hard until the replacement is completed."
"Understood." Chen Ge and Director Luo were in the same boat, and the two sides were closely connected: "By the way, didn't you say you received two messages? What is the other message?"
"The news from the intensive care unit of Hanjiang People's Hospital is that most of the people who were hospitalized after you scared them into unconsciousness have been discharged. Every day, they comfort and encourage each other and plan revenge. It's just like a pyramid scheme."
"Are you afraid that they will come back to retaliate against me?" Chen Ge laughed out loud: "A bunch of old patients, still want to play the Avengers?"
"Don't be careless, don't let yourself get into trouble." Mr. Luo said and hung up the phone.
Chen Ge still had a smile on his face. A boat could capsize in a gutter, but an aircraft carrier could not. If they came openly, the door to the four-star scene would be open to them at any time. If they tried to play dirty, the fierce god and the red-clothed people would welcome them.
After saying hello to Uncle Xu, Chen Ge left New Century Park with his bag on his back and went to the northern suburbs of Hanjiang. According to his plan, he began to help those who committed suicide to fulfill their last wishes.
In the process of fulfilling last wishes, Chen Ge discovered something very strange. As more and more last wishes were fulfilled, blood-red numbers appeared next to the title of the wish-fulfilling master in the black mobile phone.
Every time he fulfills a deceased person's last wish, the number will increase. The amount of increase is different each time, which seems to be related to the difficulty of the wish.
Chen Ge’s current number next to the title of Vow Fulfiller is 127. He guessed that perhaps when it reaches 200, the title of Vow Fulfiller would undergo some changes.
Chen Ge was busy until the afternoon before returning to New Century Park. He briefly asked the employees and found out that today was another calm day without any accidents.
"More and more people are brave enough to challenge the four-star scene, but they are still a long way from clearing it." Chen Ge received reports from Lao Zhou and Bai Qiulin. In the past week, nearly two hundred people have tried to enter the Psychic Ghost School, but the density of ghosts in that scene is very high. Chen Ge has found all the students who were abducted by the door and taken them in into his own Psychic Ghost School scene.
This has directly led to the fact that no tourist has been able to complete the entire journey in the Psychic Ghost School. They basically cried and announced that they had given up, and then were taken out by real ghosts.
There are all kinds of rumors about the psychic ghost school on the Internet. It is very popular and has already gone viral.
"One four-star scene is still too little. We can consider opening up the ghost fetus scene. I'll go in and take a good look tonight."
At six o'clock in the evening, the park stopped operating. After Chen Ge sent all the tourists away, he asked Xu Wan and the others to go home first and entered the underground scene alone.
Chang Gu started to organize everyone to take pictures again, while Chen Ge entered the ghost fetus scene holding a white cat and a comic book.
Originally there was only one level of stairs leading to the underground, but now there is a second level of stairs. The entire second level has only one scene, which is the ghost fetus.
Several scenes such as the Silent Town, the White Orphanage, the Dark Building, and the Ghost Street are integrated together. Countless secret passages are intertwined and continue to extend underground. The despair and distortion of the ghost fetus shroud everything.
The ghost womb scene is fundamentally different from the psychic ghost school scene. Perhaps it is because this scene once belonged to an evil god. As soon as you enter it, you can feel an extreme depression, as if a demon has taken up residence in your heart, constantly stirring up memories deep in the visitor's mind.
All negative emotions will be aroused, and a person's sins and evils will be released here, becoming nourishment for the ghost fetus scene.
After experiencing the deepest despair, visitors may leave here feeling more relaxed and have a new perspective on life and the future.
As long as he paid the price of a short period of coma, he could have a new life. In Chen Ge's opinion, this was an extremely worthwhile deal.
Opening the comic book, Chen Ge summoned out several evil spirits from the world behind Yingtong Gate. Lady in Skirt, Mr. Wood, cleaning lady Aunt Wu, and Miss Hong appeared silently around him.
"Bai Qiulin and Lao Zhou should have told you everything that needs to be said. The dark building is where you will live from now on. Apart from abiding by the employee rules, there are no other requirements." Chen Ge briefly exchanged a few words with several new employees: "Soon you will understand the charm of this job and fall in love with it."
After finishing speaking, Chen Ge summoned out all the evil spirits and obsessions he had obtained behind the Nine Doors of the Netherworld, and assigned them positions and jobs one by one, leaving only Xiao Sun behind.
Xiao Sun has accepted the fact of his own death. He is very open-minded. Seeing that everyone has a job but he doesn't, he is a little anxious: "Brother, what do I need to do? I also want to help scare tourists. I am very good at scaring people."
"You don't need to scare the tourists." Chen Ge looked at Xiao Sun expectantly. "You can pretend to be a tourist and blend in with them. This way you can maximize your superb talent for courting death."
"I'm going to play the role of a tourist?" Xiao Sun didn't understand. He didn't know that this is how you can play in a haunted house.
"Only in this way can you not waste your talent. I believe that with your ability, you can easily wipe out your teammates." Chen Ge smiled and nodded: "After all, you are a special talent who can make the evil spirit go berserk with just one sentence."