Chapter 278
At around 9:00 p.m. on November 3, a video with extremely poor picture quality topped the list of trending searches and climbed up the list at a steady pace.
The video was not shot with professional equipment, and the video was severely shaky during the shooting process. The noisy sound and terrified screams almost occupied the viewer's mind the moment the video was opened.
[What are you filming? It makes me dizzy...]
[Fuck! Can you keep your hands steady, the camera is shaking so badly?]
[Did a terrorist attack happen at the comic convention? These cosplayers’ terrified expressions don’t look like they’re acting at all! ]
[I told you not to gather together to do these messy things. Look, look—something bad has happened!]
[Did the 2D world eat your rice? Why are you saying such rude things? ]
[Can you please pay attention to what is happening? You are always looking for trouble. Why are you looking for trouble? 】
[The comic exhibition incident climbed up the charts so quickly, did they buy the trending searches? 】
Because the video had a long introduction at the beginning and the location where the incident took place was in a minority culture circle, many comments had a malicious tone and were intended to add fuel to the fire. However, this obviously provocative comment ended after forty seconds—
The owner of the video did flee in the same direction as the terrified crowd at first. People who clicked on the video could even clearly hear the photographer's gasps as he ran away. But something happened. The fleeing photographer suddenly stopped in the crowd. Then, he ran in the opposite direction against the crowd. He held the phone in his hand, and recorded large blocks of blurry colors as he swung his arms. The scenery around him could not be seen clearly. One could only feel that there were fewer and fewer people, and there were faint sounds of broken glass and unknown objects hitting steel.
Unknown dangers are frightening in themselves, and the videos uploaded by the photographer are from a first-person perspective, making it even easier to empathize with the situation. Although the video is poorly shot, the horrifying and noisy background sound is mixed with the photographer's heavy footsteps and rapid breathing, as if they are quietly approaching something ominous.
At the forty-second mark, the photographer stopped and pressed the phone to his chest, so the camera went completely black. Only his vigorous heartbeat could be heard. The viewers could even hear him swallowing his saliva quietly. Occasionally, a little red light leaked out of the pitch-black camera - it was the photographer's fingers pressing against the camera while he was walking.
[If this was the opening scene of a horror movie, I would give it 90 points... Bro, you are so scared, what on earth are you going to shoot?! ]
[I suddenly understood the logic of some horror movies. If you don’t commit suicide, you won’t die! ]
[Could this be some kind of promotional video that was popular in the past? It starts with a prelude that attracts people's attention, and when you concentrate, the promotional video pops up with "The most beautiful xx welcomes you, and tourist attractions are waiting for you"? [Try to compare.JPG]]
[I don’t think any official website is this boring…]
The comments had gradually calmed down, and the photographer's lens had also changed at this time. He hid behind a piece of scenery, and took advantage of the gaps in the decorations on the scenery to quietly aim the lens forward. The first thing that came into view was the dome covered with tempered glass. The special tempered glass that was said to be unbreakable even by bullets was almost completely destroyed, and the few remaining pieces were covered with dense, spider-web-like cracks.
But these broken tempered glass can no longer attract the viewer's attention at this time, because the steel frame that constitutes the dome is entangled with dark and strange tentacles. The extremely hard steel frame is like a crispy cookie and is easily broken into pieces. Sections of the steel frame fall to the tiled ground, destroying the ground into a mess.
The viewer's vision keeps shaking because the videographer is shaking. The huge tentacles that appear in his video are so real that there is no trace of special effects at all.
[The camera is shaking like this and I feel like vomiting, like I have motion sickness! ]
[Is this an alternative promotion for some new movie? ]
[Whose director chose the comic convention as the promotional location? It's not like he hasn't even passed the second year stage yet. ]
[I work in special effects. I haven’t seen any signs of compositing in the video yet. Which company is so awesome? ]
Even if you are just watching this video, you can feel that the photographer is extremely afraid of tentacle monsters, because the camera shakes more and more violently. The photographer may also be aware of this. His hands flash past the camera, and it looks like he is using his hands to stabilize himself so that he won't shake so violently.
The camera, which seemed to be having an epileptic seizure, finally stabilized a little, and the shooting position moved downward from the dilapidated dome. This time, there were five more people suspended in mid-air in the camera.
The overall tone of the video is gloomy, looking like a cloudy day before a thunderstorm. The silvery-white patterns under the feet of the five floating figures become extremely conspicuous in such a tone. The silver light keeps flowing on the patterns, looking like the exquisite and complex magic circles in special effects blockbusters.
Yellow talismans painted with cinnabar kept flying out of the hand of the girl on the far right. Each talisman seemed to have eyes and stuck accurately to the damaged black tentacles. As soon as the talisman touched the tentacles, the yellow talisman turned into ashes in an instant, and red patterns immediately climbed along the black tentacles, freezing them in mid-air.
At the moment the tentacle stiffens, the boy in the front will rush forward and cut off the tentacle with a sword. The broken tentacle smashes to the ground, and a strange black gas emerges, making a sizzling sound like sulfuric acid corrosion. But after a few seconds, a new tentacle that is exactly the same as the original one will grow on the broken surface of the tentacle, only slightly smaller than the original one.
There are so many tentacles entwined on the dome, some as big as thousand-year-old trees, and some as small as gurgling water. Even if they are chopped off and fall to the ground, they will quickly turn into tangible black air, but they still give people the illusion of endlessness.
The constant injuries may have angered the dark, strange tentacle, and it became more and more frantic, with an astonishing destructive power. There was no glass left on the dome, and the steel frame had been dismantled completely, but the sky could no longer be seen, only the creeping, strange black color.
The enraged tentacles flew everywhere, smashing the building into a mess. The set where the videographer lived and left for the cosplayers to take pictures had been badly destroyed in the flying debris - one piece even passed by the camera.
Shooting the scene at close range has already increased the psychological pressure on the photographer, and the brush with death has directly magnified the fear. The photographer's camera is no longer facing the fight in mid-air. He tries to retreat to a safe place, but the passage he came from has collapsed completely.
[The guy who filmed the video is so unlucky, isn't he? He's a typical example of someone who seeks his own death! ]
[A normal person who is powerless in such a god-level battle is really going to die if he stays here? Find cover quickly!!!]
[It’s so disgusting from such a distance that I’ve lost all my appetite. Wuwuwuwuwu———How can there be such a horrible thing in the world! 】
[How can you be so sincere in a video? I can tell it's a special effect at first glance. The special effects are quite real. I guess the budget must have been burned like crazy, right? ]
[Not to mention that the actors have a strong sense of belief. They can fight so fiercely against the green screen and the air, as if the tentacle monster really exists. ]
[This promotional angle is so novel, it really looks like an ordinary person accidentally entering the door to another world, it's really immersive! ]
The video is still going on. The photographer, who has nowhere to escape, may have accepted his fate or may have been exhausted. With nowhere to escape, he found a ruin as a shelter and continued to film with his phone. The viewers could even hear the photographer sobbing in the midst of the noisy fight:
"I may not be able to get out alive. This may be the last video of me before I die. If you encounter unusual events in the future, don't be as curious as I was. Curiosity can really kill you..."
In the splendid fight, his tragic cries sounded so tragic that the audiences praised his acting skills without any trace of acting, and said that he was a good actor.
The battle video lasted more than half an hour. In the last two minutes, the entire venue was almost open to the air. Seeing a hole in the wall large enough for a person to pass through, the cameraman stopped filming and quickly grabbed his phone and ran away - the hole had been bombarded before, and no new tentacles had appeared yet.
But there is a huge difference between the physical fitness of ordinary people and monsters. When he was still a few meters away from the hole, sand and rocks suddenly flew underground without any warning, and a tentacle as thick as an adult's body rolled towards him. His mobile phone had not finished filming, so he clearly recorded the opening and closing of the dark and weird tentacle's suction cup, as well as the sharp and cold shark-like teeth on the suction cup.
Because it was too clear, the video was instantly covered with subtitles of “Ahhhhhhh” screams.
At such a critical moment, the photographer, either out of shock or wanting to take a souvenir before his death, refused to throw the phone away. So at the end of the video, a red streak of light flew from the sky, piercing steadily and accurately through the terrifying tentacle, nailing it to the ground!
Black air overflowed from the place where the sword and the tentacles met like smoke. The tentacles swung furiously but were unable to break free and finally turned into a piece of shriveled, black skin.
Finally, a voice other than the one filming the video appeared.
"What are you standing there for? Run!"
The light blue sword stuck in the tentacle was recalled, and the video shooter woke up as if from a dream. He stumbled towards the hole, which was also his only chance of survival. This time, there was no tentacle that suddenly appeared to attack him again.
"The blade is light green, and the light is like red fire... That is the Kunwu Sword———" The phone was held in the arms of the photographer, so the camera was completely dark again, and only his mumbling was recorded, "I'm not mistaken, that is the Kunwu Sword, that is definitely the Kunwu Sword... The comics are not lying, they are all true, they are real———"
The video ends here abruptly. I don’t know if the photographer encountered an accident or he accidentally pressed the save button.
Even though the entire video was a mess, the amazing special effects in the video, which even professionals couldn't find any flaws in, still made this long video a hot topic, and as time went by, its popularity increased.
This video that became a hot topic also brought up two related topics:
#Is it a movie special effect or a real scene#
#The protagonist of "Shanhaizhiyu" tears the dimensional wall with his hands#