Chapter 206: Inhuman (14) (1st update + 2nd update + 0.5 update of 3500 thunderbolts) [VIP]
It was a not very big photo. Unlike the one taken by the previous photographer, it looked only the size of Bai Jinshu's palm. After floating down, it fell upside down on the ground.
The other "Xiao Tao" made a short breath from his throat.
Everyone subconsciously froze in place because the "pear" turned into a photo. While no one was reacting, she ran away as if escaping.
"You..." Xiao Tao reacted and wanted to chase after him, but it was too late.
"What is this?" Li Zi walked to the photo, squatted down and picked it up, "Isn't this the artistic photo we just took?"
The picture in the photo is obviously the previous "artistic photo", and the person in the photo is clearly herself.
The photo was incredibly vivid. The moment she saw it, Li Zi's mind flashed with the idiom that Xiao Tang had said before coming to this photo studio -
Lifelike.
There is no better image than this photo that illustrates this idiom.
She subconsciously wanted to throw the photo away, but just before throwing it away, she remembered that this thing was a leftover of her body after being photographed by a camera. She quickly stopped what she was doing and awkwardly clamped the photo between two fingers.
Bai Jinshu, who caused all this, put down his camera with a calm expression and fiddled with the film: "I know, that's how it is."
"What?" Fang Huai looked confused in the dark room behind the door, "Ersi, what do you know?"
Bai Jin said: "The operation mode of this strange story [Photo Studio]."
Now it seems that he has almost figured out what the strange stories in Xuxu Photo Studio are.
The most difficult part of exploring strange stories is discovering the pattern of the story.
For example, in a teahouse, the mode is that you will only be dragged in if you are present when the storyteller is telling a story. After entering, as long as you leave before the storyteller finishes the story, the exploration is completed.
The same goes for Xuxu Photo Studio.
After everyone applies for a photo shoot with the "Art Photo Model Registration Form", the studio will use a special camera like the one in his hand to take the photos. All those who participate in the photo shoot will have their souls extracted from their bodies by such a camera.
At the same time, the person being filmed has two bodies, one is the original body with the soul separated from the body, and the other is the body formed by the film.
The disembodied soul cannot distinguish the difference between the two bodies. To them, the two bodies are the same, but in fact the film body is black and white, and its physical quality is far inferior to that of a normal body. Once the soul enters the film body, it cannot stay in the light for too long, otherwise the film will be overexposed.
All those who become film people must enter the corridor that the soul body cannot enter and reach out to the darkroom before they are completely overexposed, so that they can "develop" themselves from black and white film into color photos.
According to the staff at Xuxu Photo Studio, the colored body obtained after "developing photos" in this way is actually no different from one's own body.
"How can there be no difference?" Xiao Tao couldn't help but shout out, "This is film!"
She now has overexposed spots on her body, and the person who took her body has escaped. She now has only two choices.
One is to chase after him and risk being completely exposed. She may not be able to catch the undead who took her body, but she may run the risk of never being able to wash herself off.
One is to give up your own body, enter the darkroom in front of you, and develop yourself from a black and white film into a color photo.
"Not necessarily," Bai Jinshu shook his head, "The body developed from the film should really be the same as the original body."
"Brother Yuan hinted at it, you forgot." After fiddling with the camera, he looked up at the two of them, "He said before we went in that he didn't recommend us to fight each other in there, it's meaningless."
He also mentioned that there would be no danger to his life in here. The fact that Yuan Shanming could say this meant that there was no difference whether he entered the original body or the later film body.
The only thing that makes a difference is whether the ghost story is completed.
It is very likely that successfully returning to one's own body will be considered as completing the strange story and obtaining the resurrection armor buff, while the person who enters the film's body will not be considered to have completed the strange story and will not have the buff, and the original body will be occupied by the staff in the studio.
If you think about it this way, the photographer at the beginning also showed a very terrified state after seeing that he pointed the camera at him, so his body was most likely left behind by an unlucky guy who had an unfinished ghost story some time ago.
When I was taking the photo just now, the real Riko who was with Riko was also in the frame, but in the end, the only thing that became the photo was the photo studio ghost that occupied Riko's body, so this camera...
Bai Jinshu looked down at the old-fashioned camera in his hand.
This camera should only work on souls in physical form.
It is very likely that it will absorb souls indiscriminately, no matter whether the people inside this body are newcomers in an investment bank or the undead in this strange story, as long as they are photographed by this camera, their souls will be extracted.
It’s just that for the new people, their souls are taken away and they will leave their bodies and exist in the mentality of souls.
As for the ghost stories, why are they so obsessed with obtaining other people's bodies... Could it be because the undead in this studio must have a "skin"?
"Come to think of it, why did you two enter the film?" Bai Jinshu thought about it in his mind, raised his chin and looked at the two people in front of him.
"The two of us..." Xiao Tao and Li Zi looked at each other. Li Zi clenched her teeth and hatred appeared in her eyes. "If we hadn't beaten that Brother Liu..."
"We bumped into each other first after we woke up, so we planned to explore together, but we ran into people from another team on our way to the filming studio," Xiao Tao's face showed the same hatred as Li Zi's. "The four people in that team were all from the same team. When they saw that we were alone, they said they wanted to join us."
"We thought there was strength in numbers, so we accepted their invitation," Li Zi carefully put the photo away. "But we didn't expect that the four people in that team had already discovered the strange story mode of film and real people, and were waiting for a guinea pig to go up and serve as their test subject. The two of us just happened to run into them!"
Xiao Tao: "Brother Liu said they searched for a long time and found the secret here..."
She paused and continued, "He said that everyone's body is actually in a room above the studio where we filmed. Those people who entered earlier didn't come out because the ghosts in Xuxu Studio dragged their bodies up there and hid them. They have all found their bodies and can now help us find ours."
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"He... acted very friendly, and we didn't think much of it, because it seemed that there was really no possibility of a dispute," Li Zi gritted her teeth, "but after we found our bodies according to what he said, we felt something was wrong."
"Everything went too smoothly..." Taozi looked at the overexposed spots on her body and had to leave the bright corridor and stand in the dark room. "Lizi and I became suspicious and refused to enter the body. As a result, Brother Liu, who was very friendly before, suddenly attacked us and forced us together with the other three people. We had no choice but to enter that body."
"After realizing that there was nothing special about us entering their bodies, Brother Liu seemed to stop pretending to be serious with us, and then... then it was like this," Li Zi paused, "the two of us accidentally discovered this corridor that only we could enter, and hid inside to escape their control, but ended up accidentally bumping into two people who were using our original bodies..."
Then, what Bai Jinshu saw happened.
Li Zi and Xiao Tao suddenly saw their own bodies and understood everything. They were unable to accept it and chased the person who used their bodies to the door of the darkroom.
"In other words... after entering the film's body, your real body will immediately be occupied by the strange stories in the studio?" Fang Huai couldn't sit still when he heard this and asked quickly.
"It should be like this..." Li Zi paused, "The person who enters the film's body is equivalent to giving up his original body, and then this body will soon be occupied by the undead in Xuxu Studio and become a new staff member..."
She obviously now remembered the group of staff members she had met since entering the photo studio. She didn't think it was a big deal before, but now as long as she kept thinking about it, it was really creepy that all these people were occupying other people's skins and using other people's bodies.
"Is it impossible to get my previous body back?!" Fang Huai was anxious.
"You ask us...we don't know either," Xiao Tao said with a bad face, "You saw what we were doing just now. Now the undead that took my body has escaped. I have no other choice but to soak it in the developing potion."
She walked to the bottom of the darkroom with a sullen look on her face, looked at the bathtub hesitantly for a few seconds, and finally lay down in it.
The potion covered the tip of her nose and her entire body was immersed in it.
The "developing solution" here is obviously different from the normal photo developing process in the outside world.
As soon as Xiao Tao lay down, Bai Jinshu saw that the black and white areas on her body gradually turned into colors.
The first thing to change was her skin color. The grayish-white skin slowly faded away as if the paint had been removed, gradually revealing the flesh-colored skin underneath.
Next was the color of her lips. In the dark red darkroom, her lips gradually changed from a darker gray to a pale red without any blood color. In less than a few minutes, the part of her lips not including the clothes had completely returned to its original color.
Then, various fabrics and clothes began to change. Finally, after about ten minutes, Xiaotao, who had been lying in the developing solution, had returned to her original appearance.
Only many light white spots of varying sizes appeared on the exposed arms.
From a distance, it looks like some kind of skin disease.
Those are the marks left after the film was exposed.
"That undead spirit didn't lie to us before..." Xiao Tao stood up from the bathtub, looked at her body, clenched her fist and unclenched it, then looked at the two black and white men standing not far away, her lips moved slightly, "Really, there is no difference..."
If it weren't for the light-colored spots on her arms that looked like skin disease, even she herself wouldn't be able to tell the difference between this body and her real body.
At this point, she had to admit that Yuan Shanming was right.
This strange story is not fatal. Even if you go in the wrong direction and enter the film body, you can become the same as your previous self through immersion.
Xiao Tao's success also made Fang Huai a little tempted.
He knew that he had no ability and might not be able to get his original body back. Although Ersi had a camera that could turn the undead that occupied his body into photographs, he had no bargaining chips to make Ersi take action.
The girl who had persuaded him to take action before...seemed to have promised to reveal someone's secret.
He subconsciously looked in the direction of Li Zi.
"Brother Er..." Li Zi felt a little uneasy. "Why don't we find a place alone and I'll tell you the news."
"Hmm?" Bai Jinshu turned his gaze away from Xiao Tao, who had successfully regained her color. "No rush."
He flexed his wrists and rolled up his sleeves: "Which team was the Brother Liu you met earlier on?"
Is Ersi planning to avenge them?
Unexpectedly, Nian Yu's message could be exchanged for such treatment. A hint of surprise flashed in Li Zi's eyes: "Brother Er, those four people seem to be from other teams!"
"Well," Bai Jinshu looked up at the corridor above, "then hurry up."
He didn't want to avenge these two people.
But he felt a little strange now.
Logically speaking, with Xiao Tang's personality, she should have been prepared to make a big scene here before entering, but why hasn't he heard any news yet?
Only thirty-five new people entered this ghost story. Among them, Xiaotao and Lizi met four people from other teams, a total of six people. He met Xiaofei and Xiaoyang, the other five people from the first team, and five people from the second team and Fang Huai.
By this calculation, there are actually twenty new people gathered here, accounting for more than half of all triggerers.
Among these newcomers, the number of people led by Yuan Shanming accounted for exactly half, which means that the remaining five people could only be among the fifteen people he had not met?
If that's the case, where are these fifteen people now? ?
Bai Jinshu glanced in the direction above, then glanced at Fang Huai who was about to enter the bathtub: "Have you thought it through?"
"I've thought about it," Fang Huai nodded, "I... I'll just become like this. Our captain said that this ghost story can be completed quickly, or it may take a whole night. So after I enter this body, I can leave, right?"
That's true.
Bai Jinshu had no intention of persuading a stranger with whom he had just met by chance. He nodded and walked towards the stairs: "Then I'll go up first."
"On the way here just now, I met Xiao Fei and Xiao Yang," he said as he walked, "If you don't plan to go back, let's go find them first."
"By the way," Xiao Tao turned around and said, "Li Zi, do you want to hide in the darkroom for a while..."
Li Zi is still in a film body now. Although there are no spots on her body yet, if she continues to walk under the watchful eyes, it is certain that she will have exposure spots on her body.
"I can't," Li Zi bit her lip and shook her head, "The person who occupied my body has now been turned into a photo. I don't know where my body will appear."
As long as he could return to his own body, it didn't matter how many light spots appeared on this film body.
Taozi hid the disappointment that flashed across her eyes: "Then...then I'll go first."
"I don't really want to stay in this ghost story," she whispered, "Fang Huai is right, and Brother Yuan also said that this ghost story can be completed at different times, so can I leave now?"
"I just saw an exit at the bottom of the dark room. Is that the door for us to leave this space?"
She had already developed the film, and it would be impossible for her to return to her body. Instead of that, she might as well just leave.
Xiao Tao, who failed to complete the ghost story, decided to leave this space, so only Bai Jinshu and Li Zi were left to go find Xiao Fei and the others.
The two walked in the same direction as before. Bai Jinshu couldn't see if there were other people in the empty corridor, so he could only turn his head to look in the direction of Li Zi: "Can you see Xiao Fei and the others?"
He turned around and found that Li Zi's expression was filled with a hint of fear.
"I... I saw Brother Liu," she stumbled and stopped in her tracks, "He was standing with... with Xiao Yang, and seemed to be talking to them."
"Brother Liu?" Bai Jinshu couldn't see, so he could only glance around the corridor in front of him. "I can't see, he should not have entered the body yet."
That is to say, although Brother Liu knew that he could not enter the film body at will, he also did not find his real body.
Or rather...
He found it, but he didn't know how to identify it.
He discovered that the two bodies looked identical, and it was impossible to tell them apart based on their soul forms alone.
He had to find another way, a way other than betting on the 50% probability.
"Can you hear them talking?" Bai Jinshu lowered his voice, stood half a meter away from the line, and looked at Li Zi.
"Yes...Yes!" Li Zi also lowered her voice. After listening for a long time, she repeated, "Brother Liu said...they discovered the secret here. After being photographed, they will have two bodies, one real and one fake. They, the souls, can't tell the difference between the real and the fake, and they can't be sure after entering."
Liu's tone was just like when he lied to them before, very enthusiastic, like a man who was sharing his discovery.
"Then... Xiaofei said that's not right. Brother Er, you can see that the fake body should be black and white, so the fake body should be indistinguishable, but the real body can be distinguished." Li Zi paused for a moment, "Then Xiaofei said that he is now... waiting for you to come out, and then Brother Liu will join him."
"I understand." Bai Jinshu pondered for a few seconds, glanced at the live broadcast room, turned to Li Zi and said, "Wait for me here. We'll talk about Nian Yu's matter after we get out. If other people who have also turned into films come in later, find a room to hide."
How does Brother Liu know so much?
Even he could only guess this by combining his own situation with what he heard from the two undead spirits in the photo studio. How did Brother Liu discover whether the body was real or fake in such a short period of time, and immediately determine that he needed to find someone to serve as a guinea pig to take the blame?
Something must have happened before Momo and Riko met him.
Bai Jinshu adjusted his facial expression, walked out calmly, and called out, "Xiao Fei? Are you there?"
【Erge, you came out! 】
Soon, a piece of note paper appeared in front of him.
[Er Ge, where is Fang Huai? ]
"Fang left because of other things." Bai Jinshu turned around, glanced at the pear behind the wall, and casually passed it off.
Xiao Fei didn't know Fang Huai, but he didn't suspect anything and hurriedly wrote on a note to tell Bai Jin the news about "Brother Liu".
Brother Liu claimed that he was on his way to find the body when he found a group of people gathered here. He thought something had happened, so he hurried over, but unexpectedly learned that Xiaofei and the others were waiting for the two people who walked into the wall.
One of them, "Ersi", is the only one among all the known triggerers whose soul is still in the body.
[Er Ge, he said they have discovered the rules of body storage here, but they can't tell whether the body is real or fake. We thought, you can do it, you see Fang Huai is black and white! So we said Er Ge, you entered your own body and can see the abnormality of the fake body. ] Xiao Fei's handwriting was excited.
He was smart and didn't mention that Bai Jinshu was actually left in his body because he was not filmed. As a result, Brother Liu still thought that he was lucky and happened to hit that 50% probability.
[We agreed that Erge, you will only identify the correct body for them, and then they will lead us to find all the bodies, so that everyone can complete the ghost story! ]
"Well," Bai Jinshu nodded, with a hint of well-disguised surprise on his face, "Then let's talk about it now. Do you want to go find the body first or let me distinguish the real body from the fake one first."
"I'll explain in advance. You've all seen my situation now," he looked at the blank space, "Once you enter your real body, you can't see your soul. In this case, you should agree on who will enter the body first and who will lead the rest to find the body."
The invisible souls discussed for a while.
[Er Ge, Liu Ge and the others said they can send two people to look for the body. Among the four of them, only Liu Ge and another person have found their real and fake bodies. Let them enter the real body first as a prepayment, and the remaining two people will take us to find the body. ]
"Okay," Bai Jinshu nodded, "Where did you put the body? Take me there."
Someone else took the sticky note, and a crooked route map appeared on it.
This place is also in a room above a studio.
It seems that Fang Huai did not lie to him. Most people's film bodies are near the studio where they filmed. This location setting just grasps the psychology of all triggerers. Everyone thinks that there is a problem with the filming studio, so everyone will choose to go back and look first.
At this time, whether they find it on their own or cannot find it, so the undead in the ghost story pretend to chase and drive them into the target room, they can achieve the goal of making the first body found by everyone a fake body.
Newcomers who don’t know whether their bodies exist or not, when they suddenly see their own bodies, will just choose to enter happily like Fang Huai did.
Bai Jinshu followed the route map to the room, and sure enough, he saw four bodies lying side by side in the middle of the room. One of them was a man who looked short, and the other was a man with a shaved head. He had a lot of muscles, but he didn't look fierce. At first glance, he really didn't look like a good person.
The latter should be Brother Liu.
The left side of Brother Liu's body is completely black and white, while the right side is in color.
Another person's is true on one side and false on the other.
[How is it?] A very hasty handwriting appeared on the note paper, [Can you see it?]
Many viewers also commented on the barrage:
[In the past, the most difficult part of the photo studio ghost story was the gambling part. Now that we have the anchor, we don’t have to gamble anymore. ]
[Fang Huai was wronged. If only he hadn't been so anxious to go in...]
[Then the anchor won’t be able to tell the difference between the real person and the fake one.]
[But Li Zi and Xiao Tao were tricked by Liu Zi, so why is the host still helping Liu Zi? ]
[If the anchor doesn't help Liu Zi, how can Liu Zi lead others to find the body? ]
【Too. 】
[This is the speed-pass version of the photo studio, right? There are 35 people, but only two have gone to the developer. Xuxu Photo Studio is really losing money. ]
【The photo studio lost money, but we made money. 】
【really. 】
[The anchor is like a cheat. 】
【Viewer Liu Zi thanks the host. 】
【Viewer Liu Zi thanks the host. 】
…
I'm really sorry. Thank you so much.
"The one on the left," Bai Jinshu retracted his gaze and spoke quickly, "Both bodies, the one on the left is normal."
"Go, try it first!" Brother Liu ordered the short man next to him to go up.
A few seconds later, the short man on the left stood up, his face full of joy: "Brother Liu, I really can't see you guys anymore!"
Seeing that he succeeded, Brother Liu had no doubts and couldn't wait to enter the film's body.
As the black and white body stood up and saw the souls in front of it that were still visible to the naked eye, with extremely concrete fear and anger on their faces, Bai Jinshu finally shifted his gaze away from the barrage of question marks.
"You fucking lied to me!" Brother Liu's voice was very loud.
Before he could finish his words, the body lying on his right suddenly sat up. The undead who took advantage of the opportunity to sneak in was unable to manipulate the new body flexibly and was pressed down on the spot by Brother Liu.
"Give me back my body! Get out!" he said loudly.
The undead spirit that occupied his body grinned, "You've made your choice! You've made your choice!"
"What a bullshit choice!" Brother Liu was furious. "Damn it! This guy lied to me!"
Two similar faces, one grey and one colorful, faced each other. The dead spirit used Brother Liu's face to reveal a very familiar mocking expression: "Whose fault is that? Aren't you stupid?"
"you--"
"You don't even know who he is," the dead spirit blinked and said with a grin, "the two girls you tricked into experimenting with the fake body were his teammates."
"No wonder, no wonder..." Brother Liu gritted his teeth, "Er Si, you've already thought about it!"
"You made me like this! You won't have an easy life either!" He pounced towards Ersi quickly and was about to fight with him.
At this moment, the target he was about to attack stretched out a hand and lightly grasped his fist.
This is not the end. Ersi’s hand seemed to have infinite strength. After a second, his fist actually caved in.
Brother Liu cried out in pain, watching helplessly as his fist was clenched into a ball with one hand like paper under his grip. The extreme pain from his palm made him lose his balance for an instant, and he fell to his knees on the ground.
Ersi threw the hand down lightly.
"Liu Zi," he slowly bent down, his temperament seemed to have changed drastically in an instant, and the right hand that had just crippled one of his hands gently placed on his shoulder, "You only know that there are real and fake bodies, but you don't know what a fake body is, right?"
He slowly unfolded his clenched fist and smoothed out every wrinkle on it. Amid Brother Liu's continuous cries of pain, he spoke in a very steady voice: "Your body now is a piece of film. Do you know what film is? It is the stuff used when taking pictures with old-fashioned cameras. It will be overexposed when exposed to light. If you don't use developer, your life will only be black and white."
"But film is film. You are now just a fragile paper man who can be trampled by anyone."
"Do you believe that I can roll you into a ball and make you roll on the ground for the rest of your life?" he asked.
"I believe it, I believe it, I believe it..." Brother Liu agreed hurriedly.
"Well," Ersi gently threw down his fist and stood up, "Now it's your turn to beg me."
"In exchange for the information, I might tell you where the developer is if I'm satisfied."
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