That night, Charlie couldn't sleep at all. Every time he closed his eyes, he felt a bright red corpse hanging in front of him. The next second, when he opened his eyes, everything was dark. When he covered himself with the blanket, he would recall the third victim in the TV series who died, also being skinned alive in his bed.
Who was it? Who killed those people?!
He dared not think that it wasn't human, but perhaps a devil, Satan. But he hoped more that it was a living person, because at least a human would be shot to death, while a devil or Satan wouldn't.
Charlie wore a cross when he went out the next day, and even went to church to pray before returning home.
That night, he turned on the TV again. Now that he had the cross for protection and a gun at hand, Charlie felt he would no longer be frightened.
Charlie cursed inwardly, thinking, "So many people have died. These police officers (foreign ones) are like useless cops. Why don't they find the killer sooner?"
The protagonist has begun to feel fear. One day, he discovers that the servants in the manor have also been skinned alive and found dead in their rooms.
He started to panic completely. How could this be? Are there vengeful spirits in the manor?
The servants began to resign and leave one after another. Before leaving, one servant hesitated for a moment and finally told the protagonist that the deceased servant was the one who cleaned the antiques in the manor.
A few days ago, she was captivated by a painting of a beautiful woman, even saying that the texture of the painting felt like the skin of a tender young girl. However, after looking at it, she realized that the painting was just ordinary paper, which she found rather strange.
The male protagonist rushed to the collection room and found that the hanging scroll contained nothing but a woman dressed in foreign clothes, and the paper was just an ordinary piece of paper.
Perhaps it was the ramblings of a deceased servant.
When the male protagonist turned his head, the drawing paper suddenly changed, looking as if it had tiny pores breathing through it.
Charlie couldn't help but scream, but when the camera panned back to the portrait, the paper looked like ordinary rice paper. It was as if to say that he was mistaken.
Charlie couldn't believe he was mistaken. He had just seen it; the strangely drawn portrait of a beautiful woman seemed to have come alive. He could even feel red blood in the pores of her skin.
He kept touching the cross around his neck, but the fear in his heart did not subside.
Another sleepless night.
More and more people like Charlie started going online to tell their stories. Some people just happened to miss the scene and suspected that others were shills, while those who saw it were terrified and sought help, unable to sleep peacefully even with a pure silver cross on their backs.
"Chinese Horror" officially gained momentum just before the first season's finale. Some overseas viewers felt uneasy watching it and started buying talismans online. Some foreigners followed suit and bought them too.
A domestic online store selling export goods asked, "What's going on? Is there such a high demand for talismanic paper lately? Are foreigners this superstitious too? Can they also sell beaded bracelets?!"
Domestically, it's unclear, but the talisman paper industry seems to be celebrating a major holiday.
Until the very end, the male protagonist and his friends from back home carried the painting all the way to a Taoist temple in China. A Taoist priest performed a ritual there. The male protagonist then burned many offerings for the painting of the beautiful woman, kowtowed, and offered incense. Only then did it all come to a complete end.
The male protagonist breathed a sigh of relief and returned home to put all his collection into boxes. The next second, the camera panned across a swaying blue and white porcelain vase.
The first season has ended.
"Oh, what the heck?! That bottle!!"
The second season has already been filmed, but initially, the overseas distributors didn't have high expectations for "Chinese Horror," and even thought that it would probably be taken down before it even finished airing a season.
The result was unexpectedly viral.
Foreign publishers have begun to increase their promotional efforts, even inviting the creative team to participate in interviews.
Lin Xiaoxiao didn't go, but Zhang Erdai took the other screenwriters with him, leaving only the screenwriters who would take turns filming the subsequent seasons.
[Wait, wasn't there a rumor a while ago that Feiyang Entertainment had a big project? Where is it?!]
[Yeah, I've been glued to the live stream every day, it's exhausting. The 'ten-thousand-yuan households' and the others are all taking the college entrance exam, except for a few who aren't. The rest of them are studying every day, it makes me feel like I'm back in my senior year of high school.]
[That's right, it's one thing for young people to take the exam, but why are some older participants also signing up? My mom keeps scolding me when she sees it.]
[During exam week, studying along with the live streams has been incredibly motivating.]
[Your school's exam week starts so early?!]
Midterm exams are here!
[The village's brick factory also went bankrupt. They actually managed to produce bricks, but there wasn't a single contestant or NPC in the entire park with the necessary building qualifications. Haha, in the end, the brick factory was forced to close down, and Niu Baoguo bought it at a bargain price and built a bread oven for it. The educated youth contestants from the brick factory ultimately turned to the college entrance exam. Haha.]
[Those educated youth from the village who participated in the competition were hilarious. They wanted to start a school in the village. Turns out there wasn't a single child in the village! Hahaha, this is a TV show, not a real time travel! The children are all attending school outside the park. These people don't even bother to check; they just impulsively came up with an idea.]
The funniest part was that these contestants finally realized how enthusiastic the park's NPCs were. The moment they offered a good suggestion, and paused slightly in a deliberately mysterious way, an NPC would raise their hand to volunteer. The contestant who wanted to start broadcasting in the village was especially hilarious. He rattled off a long sentence, directly stating his opinion: he wanted to be the broadcaster. He was afraid someone else would beat him to it if he was too slow—he learned his lesson. Be proactive in everything you do; don't just sit there thinking and waiting for people to swarm you and elect you. Just say what you want and go for it!
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