118 After meeting Axue
◎Other people's faces◎
Instinctively, Qi Qiuxue quickly took out the bone knife from her backpack.
"How long have those eyes appeared?" She lowered her voice and asked the people around her softly.
"At least three or four minutes," Li Yiqing said. "When I woke up in the middle of the night and wanted to drink some water, I saw them hiding there."
"Originally, I didn't intend to wake Ah Xue, but there were too many eyes. They remained hidden behind the wardrobe and didn't move. I couldn't tell what they were, how many there were, or how big they were."
"I'm worried that I won't be able to handle this properly given my physical condition, and I might even be a burden to Xue. So, why don't I wake you up first?"
In other words, perhaps those eyes were already there before they woke up.
Why didn't you attack them? Wouldn't a surprise attack be the safest way than waiting for them to wake up?
Or... they're not actually dangerous.
Qi Qiuxue did not move, but just sat there and stared into those eyes. They were pairs of human eyes, densely packed together. A rough count showed that there were about forty or fifty of them. They were quietly hidden in the wardrobe, as if the huge wardrobe was its body and the eyes were tentacles extending outwards.
Fortunately, neither of them has trypophobia, otherwise they might have to vomit before dealing with this emergency.
About seven or eight minutes later, Qi Qiuxue slowly stood up.
Li Yiqing understood what she was going to do, and walked forward with her holding his crossbow. As the two of them approached, those eyes began to flicker frequently as if they had sensed something.
They looked like they were smiling, their shapes changing from round to small crescents one after another. They were hidden behind the wardrobe and floating up and down in a strange way, until Qi Qiuxue raised her hand to touch the cabinet door and quickly opened it.
"Hehe~"
With a chuckle, those eyes suddenly disappeared, and the closet was empty, with nothing else except some clothes.
Have you left?
"Axue." Without waiting for Qi Qiuxue to say anything, Li Yiqing opened his lips and called her name again, "Look up."
So Qi Qiuxue looked up as she guided her, and like stars shining in the dark night, those eyes appeared in groups on the ceiling.
“…”
A suspicion gradually emerged in her mind. After a moment, Qi Qiuxue said softly, "I found you."
After he finished speaking, those eyes disappeared again, and this time, Qi Qiuxue saw them appear behind the curtains.
Li Yiqing understood the eyes' intention: "They are probably playing hide-and-seek with us."
"Yeah." Qi Qiuxue nodded, stepped forward again, raised her hand to open the curtains, and then found them in the bathtub, drawers and murals.
And the last time was under the bed.
After that, the eyes disappeared completely. Qi Qiuxue and Li Yiqing searched the whole room but couldn't find any trace of them.
They probably won't appear again tonight.
There were still about three hours until the morning gathering, enough time for a nap. Before falling asleep, Qi Qiuxue raised her hand and touched Li Yiqing's forehead: "Why is it getting hot again?"
"It's okay, just take some medicine and get some sleep." Li Yiqing shook his head, not wanting her to worry too much about him. "Axue, go to sleep quickly. You still have a lot to do tomorrow."
"Yeah." Qi Qiuxue nodded, returned to the bed under her gaze, and supervised her taking the medicine.
"Evening... cough cough cough." Li Yiqing couldn't help but lower her eyes and coughed softly again. The dim light enveloped her. Qi Qiuxue caught a glimpse of her pale face, slender wrists and the corners of her eyes that were slightly red due to coughing.
Compared to the past, Li Yiqing rarely showed such a vulnerable moment. Qi Qiuxue looked at her silently, and after a while, she raised her hand and lifted the corner of her quilt.
"Do you want to come over and sleep?" she said, opening her lips to invite Li Yiqing.
Li Yiqing happened to stop coughing at this moment, raised his eyes and looked at her in surprise: "Is it okay?"
"Of course." Qi Qiuxue responded and moved inward to make room for Li Yiqing. "Come here."
Her tone sounded full of patience, and even contained a hint of a smile. Light and shadow fell on her hair and eyelashes, casting a golden shadow.
Li Yiqing looked at her for a few seconds, then obediently moved over and lay down in Qi Qiuxue's warm bed. When one person's body temperature is not enough to warm themselves, lying together and hugging each other for warmth is undoubtedly the most correct answer.
Just like that night, Qi Qiuxue raised his hands and hugged her.
Li Yiqing noticed that his heartbeat was a little faster, "bang, bang, bang", one after another, a bit noisy.
Qi Qiuxue obviously heard the rhythm of her heart, closed her eyes and asked her lazily, "You are happy again, aren't you?"
"Yeah." Li Yiqing responded softly and closed his eyes with her.
"Will gods be happy too?" Qi Qiuxue asked, a hint of sarcasm in her tone. "I used to think all gods were like that Lord God—cold, harsh, and unkind."
After saying this, Li Yiqing was silent for a few seconds: "Maybe I was like that a long time ago, but not now."
"Really? When did it start to change?" Qi Qiuxue asked casually.
Li Yiqing buried his head in Qi Qiuxue's neck, his voice was very soft -
"Ever since I met Axue."
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Early the next morning, everyone quickly got up, washed, and took the bus to the studio again within the time specified by the director.
Wen Yun did not come today. The assistant told her that she had a high fever after the spirit-calling ceremony last night. She vomited and coughed all night and only managed to fall asleep in the morning.
It was impossible to complete today's filming in this state, so the reshoots of some shots last night had to be postponed to a later date. The director therefore changed the arrangement and decided to shoot other scenes first.
The plot to be filmed today is a section from the second story of "The Soul", which is a rivalry between the female lead played by Gu Shitang and the male lead played by Xia Jian.
The story outline is that Gu Shitang and Xia Jian accidentally got separated from their other two teammates while searching for clues. By chance, they entered a church and found that it was full of people in strange clothes.
The gang forcibly imprisoned them, forced them to kneel before the statue, and dedicate their souls and lives to their faith. After forcing the two to pray by bowing three times and kowtow nine times, they brought a sharp cross and tried to nail it to the two's hearts to end their lives.
Seeing this, the two struggled desperately, finally broke free from the control and fled in a panic. At this time, the camera switched to Xia Jian's face, following his perspective as he ran for a long time until he arrived at a place he thought was safe.
Xia Jian stood under the street light, breathing heavily. The people coming and going around him gradually made him feel safe again. After calming down a little, he turned around to check on Gu Shitang's condition.
But soon, he discovered something horrifying—
Gu Shitang is missing.
Xia Jian gasped at the sight and looked around helplessly. The scene around him had changed at some point, and he was back in the church that terrified him once again. His companion Gu Shitang was standing at the end of the corridor, waving slowly to him with his back to him.
“…”
This scene was terrifying enough just by reading the script. Considering what happened last night, although the other actors were not as frightened as Wen Yun, they were also a little scared. Fortunately, there were enough staff on the set, and listening to the noisy voices, the fear dissipated a lot.
Until the filming started.
As the word "action" rang out, the surroundings suddenly fell silent. The two actors took a deep breath, quickly found their state, and began to perform with good professional qualities.
Gu Shitang's performance today was much better than yesterday, and the filming was interrupted very rarely. Good actors will complement each other, drive each other's emotions and experiences, and get into the role better. When Xia Jian was pinned to the ground by the extras, he looked into Gu Shitang's eyes and caught a glimpse of the very real collapse and panic in her eyes.
Gu Shitang screamed loudly, his face full of fear. Seeing this, Xia Jian's heart beat faster and his back felt cold. The extras relaxed their strength at the right time, leaving them a chance to escape. Xia Jian stood up with a blank mind and started running as arranged in the script. The filming continued to move forward until he discovered that Gu Shitang had disappeared, and then he returned to the corridor of the church.
Xia Jian's legs were trembling, his lips were extremely pale, and big beads of sweat were sliding down his forehead. This state was exactly what everyone wanted. Director Lao Xiao waved his hand to signal the camera to point at Xia Jian's face, capturing every panicked expression on his face.
At the end of the corridor, very far away, Gu Shitang was standing there waiting quietly.
Xia Jian couldn't see her face, he could only see the back of her head, her back, and her slowly raised right hand.
Perhaps it was because of the lighting, perhaps it was because of the atmosphere, or perhaps he was hallucinating. Looking from afar, Xia Jian always felt that it was not Gu Shitang's hand at all. It was rotten, dry, and thin... like a ghost hand without flesh and blood, only covered with a layer of skin.
Gradually, Gu Shitang at the end slowly turned around.
This was a scene that did not exist in the script. Gu Shitang's performance went wrong. Due to extreme fear and tension, Xia Jian could not make any sound, but he instinctively hoped that the director would notice this scene and stop it quickly.
But no, the filming continued, and no one in Yu Guangzhong noticed Gu Shitang’s mistake, as if everything was going on normally, and only he saw a different picture.
Maybe it was only a few seconds, or maybe it was a long time before Xia Jian finally saw her face clearly.
——That’s not Gu Shitang’s face at all, it belongs to someone else.
The face was twisted, broken, bloody, and its eyeballs were exposed.
【Author’s words】
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