Chapter 45: Classic Movie Appreciation
The bloody handprint seemed to be stimulated, struggling upwards from the ground, trying to escape from the shackles of the toilet plunger.
Seeing that it couldn't break free no matter what, the ghost handprints let out a sharp roar, and all the handprints in the room struggled and screamed as if they were being burned. For a while, the ghosts cried out, forcing people to cover their ears.
[-5, -10, -15...]
Their health drops rapidly under mental attacks.
While the demons were dancing wildly, Tang Xinjue said calmly: "Do you think your voice is too loud?"
After the words fell, the toilet plunger moved, and a deafening scream erupted. It not only replicated Zhao Mingtao's roar before he was swallowed, but also resembled hundreds of ghosts crying at the same time under the "light of righteousness", completely covering up the all the other sounds in the dorm.
After the voice ended, the bloody handprints were as quiet as ever.
Awe-inspiring*.
*肃然 sù rán, describes a very respectful look; a serious and prudent look.
The fat handprint was blurred by the sound waves, and even the blood red color was a little lighter. It barely managed to hold a breath, and was about to give up the attack in anger, when it suddenly heard Tang Xinjue say leisurely: "You should no longer a living person now, right?"
The blood handprint should be just a separated part of the ghost itself. It not only belongs to the category of [pure energy body] [in the dungeon], but also a weak state that was about to dissipate.
——Perfectly meets the standards of toilet plunger food.
Fat handprint: ? ? ?
This time, before it had time to break free, it completely disappeared under the rubber head. The entire handprint was eaten away in the blink of an eye, leaving only a frightening and unwilling scratch on the ground.
Who the hell was the ghost here?!
As the fat handprint disappeared, the bloody palmprints in the entire dormitory room instantly faded away, and the walls and roof became clean again, as if the scene just now was just an illusion.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
There was another knock at the door, making everyone who was about to breathe a sigh of relief feel their hearts hanging again.
Guo Guo almost collapsed: "Is it not over yet?"
Tang Xinjue was startled. The frequency of knocking on the door seemed familiar to her for some reason.
It seems that not long ago, someone knocked on the dormitory door like this...
She suddenly remembered.
Guo Guo also recovered from the collapse and also realized the familiarity. She sniffed and said, "I seem to be in a dreamland. Have I heard this knock on the door?"
A few seconds later, the knocking on the door suddenly stopped, and a torn piece of paper was handed in under the crack of the door.
Tang Xinjue bent down and picked it up, only to see that it was a small half piece of talisman that had been torn open.
——It was the protective amulet she gave Jin Wen during the day.
So... it's Jin Wen outside the door?
The knock on the door in the illusion at the end was Jin Wen's warning to them?
Several people looked at each other in blank dismay. But the knock on the door never came again, only the sound of heavy and unsteady footsteps gradually faded away until it disappeared completely.
[Ding! The movie viewing progress has reached 100% and the replay is over. Start the movie viewing quiz now!]
[Excuse me, among the four characters in Dormitory 612 in the movie, which character died first?]
[A, Wei Xian]
[B, Jin Wen]
[C, Cao Rou]
[D, Zhou Xing]
Guo Guo asked tentatively: "We should have the answer by now, right?"
If the fat man who spread the curse to harm people spoke truthfully, the correct answer should be the same as what they thought.
Tang Xinjue nodded: "Yes, and..."
She raised her hand, and dried blood appeared on the runes, forming a crooked single figure.
"We choose A, Wei Xian."
[The answer has been submitted and is being verified...]
[Congratulations, you answered correctly! ]
Soon, the prompts seamlessly connected:
[The on-site appreciation session begins. Candidates are asked to write their thoughts about the movie within 60 minutes, with a word count of no less than 1,000]
Everyone took out pens and papers, then looked up after realizing: ? ? ?
After viewing the movie, the word count requirements can continue to rise?
"Maybe it's because there are no ghosts to disturb us at the moment, and we are in our own dormitory, so the environment is more favorable to us." Zhang You thought about the reason from the perspective of exam rules and adjusted her glasses. "In short, as long as you finish writing, you can pass the level. Come on, everyone."
"Okay!" Zheng Wanqing and Guo Guo clenched their fists and vowed.
Ten minutes later.
"...Write, but I can't write."
The two people looked up slumped and looked at Tang Xinjue helplessly, "I seem to have forgotten to ask, what is our title this time?"
Tang Xinjue turned over her notebook to them: [To prevent campus fraud, it starts with you and me - thoughts after watching "Headless Tales 2"]
…
[Ding dong, your review has been submitted and is under review...]
[The candidates’ comments after viewing will be graded by classmates from our school——]
Heads reappeared on the balcony one after another, piled up next to each other outside the glass window, with expressions that sounded like howling and sneering, as if they were watching a joke in the dormitory.
[Your score is: 53...]
The test prompt suddenly froze, as if reading encountered some kind of obstacle. After a long pause, it spoke again:
[Ding, some students have applied for re-scoring, and now your score is: 72...]
[Ding, a classmate applied for re-scoring again, your score is: 8...]
[Ding, students are negotiating, please wait... After the negotiation is completed, the remaining students will be graded again...]
The prompt sound paused, and after an unknown amount of time, when it finally announced a complete sentence again, there was a faint sense of hopelessness in the mechanical sound:
[The candidate’s final score is: 91 points!]
[Congratulations to the candidates, who received an "excellent" evaluation and became the first people to achieve outstanding results in the movie assessment test. You will receive a special reward for the film dungeon: [increased probability of member ability awakening], [random skill card] *1]
Four light blue haloes appeared from the sky and were projected on several people. A comfortable cooling sensation was felt throughout their bodies, and then disappeared as the environment became brighter.
They looked back and saw that the outside of the balcony had been shrouded in white fog again, and the clock showed 12 noon.
They had left the movie and returned to the safe dormitory of the examination room.
As if their strength had been relieved, they immediately collapsed on their chairs.
"I didn't expect that this review would get such a high rating." Zhang You was still in a daze, unable to digest this sudden surprise.
Tang Xinjue held half of the talisman in her hand, with a faint smile in her eyes: "Obviously someone helped us."
That's why the score was forced to be "negotiated" to be raised again and again until the other party was satisfied.
It's a pity that the plot of the movie couldn't be reversed. Everything was a foregone conclusion. They might only meet briefly in this dungeon, or they might meet again one day.
But so far, whether it was the world of ghosts or the future in the game, what they face was still a fog that needs to be explored urgently.
…
"When I get rich in the future, I will definitely buy a mark that will let us identify the different dimensions of the dormitory. Otherwise, I will not be able to tell when it is safe and when it is dangerous." After replenishing her energy and resting, Guo Guo hugged her detector and swore.
So far, they have experienced: the real dormitory, the dormitory in the game, the dormitory during the exam, the exam dungeon dormitory, the exam dungeon phantom dormitory...
If the time was longer, it could even give people the illusion of living in a matryoshka doll.
Tang Xinjue put away Jin Wen's half-used protective talisman and looked at the computer folder. At this time, three movies had disappeared. After excluding the three that had been excluded, there were still two movies left:
"The Ghost in the Dormitory" and "The Ghost in the Mirror."
"No, is there a dormitory again?" Guo Guo, who had just complained about this, began to doubt her life.
The others also fell into silence and looked at each other for a moment. Zhang You hesitated and said: "Otherwise, we shouldn't choose the dormitory one."
After all, this was the place where they rest and sleep, so it was better to control the shadow area in their hearts.
They all silently agreed.
8pm.
After briefly watching the plots of the two movies, the four of them became more determined not to choose a dormitory.
The content of both movies was very boring and concise. "Ghost in the Dormitory" tells the story of a boy who lives alone in a four-person dormitory, and then discovers that things begin to be lost in the dormitory, inexplicable ghosts appear, the door opens and closes automatically, the lights flicker, and the air conditioner makes strange sounds, and the water in the sink turned into blood... The most important thing was that the scene inside was still a dorm with four beds and tables, and the layout was exactly the same as 606.
The scene in "Ghost in the Mirror" was even more primitive: there was only one side shot of a public toilet in the whole scene. Everyone who comes out of the public toilet will be scared to death by something in the mirror while washing their hands, and will be pulled into the mirror by a blood-red ghost hand stretched out from the mirror.
"The second part seems to be relatively simple... If ghosts can only stay in the mirror, then can we prevent more than half of the damage first as long as we make sure not to look in the mirror?"
Guo Guo pulled her hair and speculated.
Tang Xinjue thought for a while, then shook her head and said, "Then it depends on whether this mirror is a mirror in a narrow sense or a mirror in a broad sense."
"Huh? What does that mean?"
Faced with her roommate's doubts, Tang Xinjue raised her cell phone to signal. After locking the screen, the screen was completely dark, and through the lights in the dormitory, the general outlines of them in front of the screen were reflected.
"If it is a mirror in a broad sense, then any reflective material such as glass windows, smooth tiles, plastic cups, metal, water, or even mobile phone screens can be turned into [mirrors]."
At that time, the ghosts could cause harm to them through all these media.
With the last few words, Tang Xinjue pointed to her eyes: "...In extreme cases, we even have to avoid seeing each other's pupils."
Guo Guo shuddered, "...I now feel that the dormitory dungeon is not unacceptable."
Finally, after repeatedly analyzing the pros and cons, Zhang You rubbed the dark circles under her eyes as she finished the long calculation on the paper and came to the conclusion: -still choose "Ghost in the Mirror".
"Okay." Tang Xinjue shook her toilet plunger. There are now three skulls on the plastic rod, representing the three powers of swallowing. A trace of red light flashed on the sign of the bloody handprint that had just been swallowed in the dungeon.
[Successfully swallowed, the attribute "Shameless" has been inherited, and the armor of the supernatural object has been greatly increased]
[Shameless: As long as you are thick-skinned enough, nothing can penetrate my armor. This is a new truth that Toilet Plunger realized after swallowing the evil cultivator's handprint.]
Touching the skull symbol, Tang Xinjue spoke in a brisk tone, injecting a sense of security into the atmosphere of the dormitory: "Then let's take a look at this last dungeon."
On the computer screen, as the third woman coming out of the bathroom was pulled into the mirror, blood flowed from the mirror, and the content of the movie viewing test emerged:
[Excuse me, what is the name of the ghost in the mirror in the movie]
[A, Bing Lanlan]
[B, Li Nalu]
[C, Liu Lizi]
[D. Shang Yinghong]
*not sure how to best translate this, but basically each name has the character of color at the end (which I italized). Names literally means: A, Ice Blue Blue | B, Jasmine Graceful Green | C, Glazed Purple | D, Sad Cherry Red
After watching the end, Zheng Wanqing couldn't help but sigh: "F*ck your mom*."
*草泥马 cào nǐ mā = profanity that literally means grass mud horse but well...
"..."
There was almost no doubt that after the blind choice of option C failed, [Movie Replay] was turned on and the four of them lost consciousness again.
*
A cold touch spread from her perception, and a gust of cold wind blew. As her consciousness returned and she opened her eyes, Tang Xinjue found herself standing in front of the sink.
This was a dilapidated bathroom with air leakage everywhere, dim pale white lights, and a long and narrow sink. Next to it were her three roommates who had also just opened their eyes. Their shocked expressions were reflected in the mirror.
But in the mirror, the position corresponding to Tang Xinjue was not herself, but a girl covered in blood.
Instant kill!
It's too late to close her eyes now. The girl in the mirror moves her long hair away from her forehead, revealing a face that was giggling and slyly smiling: "Hee hee hee, you guys are here!"
The moment their eyes met, the female ghost who couldn't wait to see the candidate's fearful expression paused and a smile froze on her face.
Amongst the situation that was even weirder than before, Tang Xinjue raised her eyebrows and showed a bit of surprise. If she recognized it correctly——
"...Xiaohong?"
Female ghost in the mirror: "..."
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