Here in the harbor, there seems to be no boundary between life and death. Both the living Lu Ying and the dead Dr. D exist here. This place is full of unreasonable weirdness, and Lu Ying chooses to turn a blind eye to most of them.
"If you want to stay here longer, don't know too much." Lu Ying poured herself a glass of water again, "If you want to go back, I can help you once, only once. Thank me, I You don’t always do good deeds.”
Don’t do good deeds often? Probably because he never does anything good.
But Lu Ying's mentality has not changed much compared to the last time they were separated, and Lu Ning is not worried.
"It takes a little preparation time to return to the mainland. I don't know who extradited you here, but after you go back, don't mention to anyone that you saw me here. Do you understand? Wait until... fifteen minutes of physical sensation After that, you come back here and I can probably finish it."
Lu Ning nodded. When Lu Ying saw her getting up, she reminded her again: "No matter where you go here, don't threaten others with matters of life and death. There is no such concept here."
"I know." Lu Ning didn't know what kind of person Lu Ying was in her heart, but she didn't care. She walked out and returned to the dark street.
The beggar was no longer there, and there was a pool of blood where he had been. Lu Ning thought for a moment and walked around.
Rose Street is not very long, no more than a hundred meters at most, and you can reach the end with just a short walk. The fog shrouding the streets made people feel a little stuffy, and Lu Ning was finally able to appreciate the weirdness of this "harbour".
She couldn't identify what was in front of her. There was something at the end of the street, which was within Lu Ning's visual range. Lu Ning also knew clearly that there was something standing there, but she was completely unable to form a picture of this thing in her mind. Correct image. Because of this, Lu Ning stopped - a completely unknown existence, which is an absolute taboo in the distribution center.
Just as she was retreating, rustling sounds started coming from around her. It looks like there are rats running down the street, but maybe much bigger.
Lu Ning frowned and looked at an alley on the right. The sound came from that direction, and the road in front of her was blocked. In this case...
It’s better to turn back.
She will not be attracted by these things casually. The most important thing now is to go back first and figure out the connection between this weird world and the outside world.
But she didn't go, instead the voices started coming in her direction. Lu Ning quickened his pace a little, and the speed of those things also increased accordingly.
When Lu Ning returned and approached Lu Ying's door, she suddenly stopped and turned around.
About ten meters behind her, there was a pile of things that looked like white mushrooms. Their height just reached Lu Ning's knees, but they were huge, about the size of ordinary umbrellas, with gray spots on them. There is a pair of snail-like eyes under these mushrooms, and the deposits protruding from the edge of the umbrella cover are constantly squirming. It can be seen that these things are not plants or fungi, but animals.
Lu Ning glanced over and saw that there were at least twenty of them.
Ghost ship? The first noun that flashed through her mind was the name that had been mentioned several times before. Lu Ying did not explain it in detail, as if it couldn't be explained here. But before she could make a judgment, the umbrella cover of the front "mushroom" suddenly cracked, and a white thread protruded from it, forming a human face in the air like a plaster statue.
"Hello." The human face opened its mouth, but the voice came from the mushroom below.
"...Hello." Lu Ning replied cautiously.
"There is something familiar about you, that's why we came here." The mouth of the human face continued to open and close. Of course, this face was just a shell and did not have any five senses. This gave Lu Ning the feeling A little weirder.
"Who are you……"
Bang.
The door was opened rudely. Lu Ying looked at the mushrooms on the street with an unhappy look on her face and shouted, "What are you doing here? Rose Street is my territory!"
"Our compatriots smelled a touching smell, maybe it was an anchor point, maybe it was a memory." Mushroom said lightly, "We think it might be another compatriot, or maybe..."
"Get lost!" Lu Ying shouted impatiently.
The mushroom's body squirmed, retracting the fake face into the umbrella cover, and then disappeared into the surrounding paths with a rustling sound.
Lu Ning was silent for a moment and asked, "What are these?"
"Dr.D, they are already a group with a similar Gestalt consciousness. The way they leave an anchor here is to extend their compatriots and make up for the lack of quality through quantity. Because of this, people near Nightingale Clinic may be more More." Lu Ying said.
"I know. By the way, the beggar at your door has disappeared. Do you know what happened?" Lu Ning asked again.
"I don't know. I can't keep anyone here. Maybe they ran away because they felt it was not what they wanted here." Lu Ying said nonchalantly.
"Last question... I walked along the road here to the end, but I saw something beyond recognition there. Do you know?"
"I know, just leave it alone." Lu Ying pointed to her head, "Being able to see it means that there is something wrong with you, but being unable to recognize it means that you are not hopeless yet. Okay, Just wait for me for a few minutes and the preparations will be completed, and I hope I won’t see you again.”
"Ha... okay."
After a few minutes, Lu Ying let Lu Ning into the room. The layout of the room had changed a lot from before, even the walls and ceiling were different. If Lu Ying hadn't brought Lu Ning in, she would have even doubted whether this house was the one just now.
"Now, you must always recall in your mind the place where you came from, the more detailed the better. Your anchor point will become clearer and clearer, and to a certain extent, that place will pull you back to your inner self. Lu." Lu Ying said, "Success depends on how clear your memory is, but it has nothing to do with your emotions. It's best not to let irrelevant emotions affect your thinking."
"understood."
Lu Ying pushed Lu Ying back from behind and told her to keep moving forward.
"I can't go over there with you. I have no anchor point inland. It's very dangerous for me to go over there. And you have to be careful. If you fail, you won't be able to go back to your inland area."
Lu Ning nodded and continued walking forward. The corridor was narrow and dim, with unknown light sources on both sides, emitting cold white light. This corridor seemed to have no end. Lu Ning felt that the touch of his skin was fading, and his legs were just moving forward mechanically. She concentrated on recalling the situation on the filming set, and even began to gradually lose sight and hearing of the surroundings. Only some quiet smells, like rotting trees, penetrated into her nasal cavity.
However, her eyes were still mechanically capturing the things around her. In the dim light, she seemed to see a person, also a woman, tall and with long hair... Her thoughts could only reflect these basic things. concepts, more attention is focused on memories.
"Quickly, take out the rain shields! We may not be able to shoot the outdoor scenes today, we will shoot the indoor scenes later!"
The man's roar brought Lu Ning back to her senses, which was almost lost. She stood at the side door where she had left before. There was a cold touch of rain on her head. When she looked up, the sky was already covered with dark clouds. It was as if she had brought the weather on Rose Street back to reality. The crew was busy dealing with the sudden rain. Of course, there were such plans, and the crew quickly moved many things indoors. Yu Zhan discussed the script with the screenwriter next to him, and the assistant director answered the phone. No one noticed that Lu Ning left.
Lu Ning shook her head and quickly returned to the camera crew. Ke Daolin nodded to her. Lu Ning also started to help. She accidentally saw some movie fans gathered outside the door. There were fewer people than in the square before, but these people were all wearing raincoats and stood silently in the rain. They didn't make any noise, but they didn't leave either. .
"When did those people come?" she asked Ke Daolin.
"About five minutes. You left for more than ten minutes because no one asked during the rest period. But the rain came very quickly."
More than ten minutes, which is not much different from the time Lu Ning experienced on Rose Street.
"Don't you think those guys look a little... scary?"
They seemed to be movie fans, but they just stood outside quietly. The busy staff did not notice the situation of these movie fans, probably because they had adapted to it. Lu Ning just glanced at it and continued to help the crew with the transfer work.
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Behind the movie fans, a man in a gray raincoat squeezed out of the crowd. He reached out and tugged on the raincoat, revealing the white shirt and tie underneath - it was rare for people to dress like this on such an occasion. The man is tall and thin, with a short beard, which makes him look several years older than his actual age. He looked around anxiously, until he saw a woman's figure appearing under the eaves opposite, he breathed a sigh of relief and walked quickly towards the woman.
"It's great that you can come back safely." The man approached and whispered, "I just saw a person who also left come back, and I was wondering..."
"Are you a tourist?" The woman dusted her sleeves with her fingers. Her coat was waterproof. This action easily shook all the rainwater on her body to the ground.
"It's not clear yet. If so, he shouldn't be in the same group as us." The man took out his cell phone from his pocket, "I sent a message to Chen Anhui, but he hasn't responded yet."
"It's normal. He and the live broadcast won't be able to stop like the filming of a TV series." The woman took out a box of women's cigarettes from her pocket, knocked out one and lit it for herself.
"Did you gain anything from going there?"
"Well... there is a very weird world. I think it is better for us to stay put for now. Li Chengfu, you said that you have met three tourists or characters in the scene that you have met before, right?"
The man named Li Chengfu nodded and went to the eaves to stand side by side with the woman.
"One was a very close friend of mine before, and he died in the third-level promotion scene. The two were characters in the scene that impressed me deeply when I was in the first level. They both had very unique temperaments, and now... Nothing has changed."
The woman exhaled a puff of smoke and watched the white mist melt into the rain.
"So to sum up, there are two kinds of [past] in this scene, the dead tourists we know, and the characters in the scene we met in the past scenes. The dead tourists will have a different name, and there will be many differences , but many of them are somewhat similar to our impressions. The names of the characters in the scenes will not change, and some may even be people we know... It is very interesting."
"I listen to you, Zhan Qiuxin." Li Chengfu pulled up his collar again and lowered his eyes, "This scene gives me some bad premonitions. I have heard of your name and your abilities. You should be able to Have you survived this scene?”
"Excluding tourists, I am confident." Zhan Qiuxin nodded.
"Tourist factor?"
"We are [movie fans]. If we divide it according to the shooting, we are at the outermost level of this information circle. If the tourists who are arranged in the inner level do anything, it will be difficult to distinguish the authenticity of the information they provide from our position. Fake.”
"That's true." Li Chengfu agreed, "Tourists now won't even cooperate easily."
"This is very troublesome, because there is obviously a need for cooperation in this scene, but how many tourists are willing to cooperate with strangers? Cooperation at the fourth level is much more difficult than at the first level."
"There are too many willful people." Li Chengfu sneered, "Then what should we do?"
"First of all, determine what circle the tourists should be in if there are tourists here. The shooting - revolves around this theme. We are in the circle of movie fans, but obviously the distribution center has not arranged all the tourists to be within our scope. So the various parties involved in this shooting All parties may be arranged to be tourists, and the parties involved may include film and television bases, investment companies, crew members, performing arts companies, publicity and development, production and management." Zhan Qiuxin said.
"Look for them one by one?"
"We are movie fans, the freest group of people on the periphery. If this is a scene of division of labor and cooperation, then we naturally have to take on this task. You said you would listen to me, right?"
Li Chengfu moved his shoulders: "Yes, I do what I say. Let's first communicate with the people filming here. Someone was attracted like you and went to investigate."
"That's just right." Zhan Qiuxin put out the cigarette, took out a plastic box and put the cigarette butts in it, then narrowed his eyes and looked at Ling Mansion, who was still filming.
