Chapter 37 Classic Movie Appreciation (XI)
“…”
Comedy? Family? Patriotism? Anti-war?
What are these options?
Guo Guo's eyes were dull: "If I am guilty, the law will punish me instead of letting me face this kind of problem."
Even the test in the previous movie seems less outrageous in comparison.
Zhang You spoke straightforwardly: "I can't choose, Xin Jue, what about you?"
Her eyes focused on Tang Xinjue again. The girl stared at the question for two seconds and turned her head: "Wanqing, what do you think?"
Zheng Wanqing: "Uh...wait, do you think it's appropriate to throw this kind of IQ and logic question at me?"
"No." Tang Xinjue shook his head without thinking, "When it comes to multiple-choice questions at this level, it's no longer about logic, it's about luck."
In the entire dormitory 606, the person who is recognized as the luckiest and most European is Zheng Wanqing.
"God will give a great mission to Emperor Ou. Wanqing, this question belongs to you."
Zheng Wanqing: “…”
I believed your ghost!
There was not much time left in the countdown. She thought for a few seconds and made a bold choice: "Then let's go with A!"
"From beginning to end, the headless ghost just kept laughing. What the hell, maybe it thought it was pretty funny."
I don’t know whether it found it funny or not, but Zheng Wanqing was almost annoyed to death.
She exhaled angrily, "Comedy! That's it."
[Ding! The answer is correct!]
The prompt system plays a cheerful music, which stops after about ten seconds: [Next, you will be asked to write your impressions after watching the show. Please prepare paper, pen and other tools and be ready——]
Everyone: “???!!!”
Is this correct?!
Several people looked at each other, without time to discuss why the answer was correct - there was probably no such opportunity - and could only hurriedly look for paper and pen at hand when the prompt sounded.
Tang Xin Jue quickly reminded: "Don't forget your cell phone and props."
As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding environment changed immediately.
The light became dim, and the reflection on the wall pattern was a bit dazzling. The desk and bed turned into a wine table and a sofa. Just as Tang Xinjue was concentrating his attention, a deafening scream came towards him, shocking him.
Four well-dressed men and women huddled together, looking in horror at the position behind Tang Xinjue, screams coming out of their mouths continuously.
This was a private room, and judging by the decoration, it was quite luxurious. The four men and women were huddled in front of the door of the private room, with dining chairs, dining carts, handbags, and various belongings scattered around. It must have been because they had just smashed the door hard but failed to break it open.
"Don't come over here, don't come over here, help!!"
The screams became louder and louder, and fear filled the room.
The next moment, Guo Guo's scream also suddenly jumped up from the side, leading the others to rush forward: "Ghost! It's behind us!"
Looking back suddenly, he saw a headless body crawling down the wall, only a few feet away from Tang Xinjue. Even the broken cut on the neck was clearly visible.
"Who cut off my head... Who sealed me in the ground... I can't get out..."
A low and hoarse voice sounded from the other side. Her eyes followed the voice and saw a bloody head beside Tang Xinjue's legs. The huge whites of its eyes rolled up and looked at her.
The headless figure pounced down, and she dodged to the side. However, the headless ghost did not continue to attack, but hugged the head on the ground and slowly walked towards the door of the box.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Tang Xin Jue reminded his roommate: "Calm down, now is the time to write your review. Stay away from them, we shouldn't be in too much danger."
Sure enough, neither the four men and women at the door of the box nor the headless ghost with a clear goal seemed to be able to see the four people in the dormitory, and they were only concerned with the horror plot at the end of the movie.
[Ding, candidates, please write your review of the movie within 60 minutes, with no less than 800 words. The countdown begins!]
“…”
After calming down , they opened paper and pen, dragged Guo Guo, whose legs were weak, to a corner far away from the haunted scene and sat down, and began to conceive amid the screams of the characters.
If the previous movie was a "replay" and the plot was relatively complete, then this movie can be said to be completely confusing. Even the theme of the movie was answered by Zheng Wanqing by luck.
Soon, Zheng Wanqing, who was thinking aimlessly, found that her roommates' eyes were on her.
She: “…I was totally guessing!”
She is a finance graduate and hasn't written a movie review since she finished two humanities elective courses in her freshman year. She is completely at a loss as to what to do about it.
"Oh, right," she suddenly remembered, "Guo Guo, you switched to journalism in your sophomore year. You should be able to write this kind of on-site summary, right?"
Guo Guo had just recovered from the shock of being hit in the face by the headless ghost, his face was livid: "The press release does not include the haunted murder scene, and I can't make it up!"
Zhang You rejected it in advance: "I switched to a foreign language major, which is not applicable to this movie... But the review should mainly use imagination. We each write a paragraph and match it with the theme written by Xin Jue. We just need to finish it as soon as possible."
At this point, several people looked at the third-year Chinese major who had already started writing. Tang Xinjue had already written several lines, and his slender fingers wrote vigorously:
[On the universal applicability and satirical nature of headless ghosts in comedy films]
Several people were silent for a while.
Guo Guo was amazed: "Jie Shen, how did you come up with these arguments?"
Tang Xin Jue said without hesitation: "Give up the brain and logical thinking."
...That makes so much sense. I am speechless.
At the door of the box, one of the four men and women had already collapsed due to excessive fear. Two of the remaining three chose to parkour inside the house to escape, while one of them picked up a chair and went up to fight with the headless ghost. Then the headless ghost gave a light pinch and the chair broke into pieces.
The person who was fighting stumbled back two steps and hit the door, then collapsed to the ground and yelled: "It's been so many years, why are you still pestering us! We can fulfill any wishes you had before you died, and we can help you to be reborn! Don't kill us... wuwu..."
Fear made the roaring man burst into tears.
The headless ghost actually stopped. The eyes of the human head in its arms stopped moving. It stared at the man and trembled slightly: "My wish is..."
A layer of white fog suddenly rose in the room, covering all the characters and sounds in the movie.
Several people in the dormitory who were watching the scene: ...Can we still stop them from watching the plot like this?
Tang Xin Jue analyzed as he wrote: "This paragraph may involve spoilers for the second part, so it has been blocked. We just need to observe the information we can find."
After a while, the white mist dissipated, and the headless ghost in the box disappeared. Only four men and women were left standing there in a daze.
They climbed up stiffly, slowly turned to the four people who were writing their reviews, and then tilted their heads, and four heads rolled off their necks.
The head fell to the ground, and the corners of his mouth opened up, screaming in fear.
Guo Guo: “Ugh—”
She instinctively retched again, clutching the notebook tightly in her hand, and forced herself not to close her Yin-Yang eyes.
Zhang You, who was watching from the side, felt sorry for what was happening: "If you feel uncomfortable, just close your eyes and bear it. We shouldn't be attacked."
Guo Guo shook his head: "No, I saw something behind them, ugh——"
Fortunately, the new headless ghosts were only limited to mental pollution, and their legs were spinning in place, not rushing over. After a moment, Tang Xinjue put down his pen and said, "I wrote five hundred."
Zhang You tore off his notebook paper: "I wrote exactly 300."
After giving up my brain, writing became much smoother.
[Ding Dong, the review has been submitted and is being evaluated...]
[Candidates’ impressions after watching the film will be rated by the film’s protagonist!]
Four heads were screaming on the ground: "It hurts so much, I can't see anything..."
"Zero points, zero points!"
[The scoring is over. Your final score for your review is: zero!]
“…”
Zheng Wanqing clenched her fists: "If I hit them now, will the rules allow it?"
"Forget it, I just won't get any extra rewards." Zhang You stopped Zheng Wanqing who was about to go berserk, "The evil intentions of the ghosts towards us are unreasonable."
In a completely unfamiliar area, the other party is the host and they are the guests, and if they are not careful, they can easily fall into a trap.
In fact, the fact that they had successfully written their review was clearly not enough for the four new headless ghosts who had been screaming and wailing for a long time, and they stared at them viciously with their pale eyes.
Tang Xin Jue didn't care about the scoring. She seemed to be attracted by the heads spinning around on the ground. She squatted down and asked them, "What did the headless ghost say to you just now?"
The four heads rolled their eyes and said, "Come closer, and we'll tell you."
Tang Xinjue pulled out the toilet plunger, "Really?"
Head: “…”
For some reason, this toilet plunger made them feel fearful. The cold feeling attached to the rubber head made their scalps tingle, as if something very unfriendly to ghosts had happened on it.
The four heads shook in unison again: "Go away, go away!"
Tang Xin Jue didn't move, but emphasized and repeated: "Is it that headless ghost that made you like this? What did it say?"
"It said..." The head finally stopped screaming and spoke slowly and reluctantly:
"Only by fulfilling their demands can our curse end... Otherwise, we will be enslaved endlessly..."
Who are “they” and what curse are they trying to end?
Tang Xinjue was about to ask again when the reminder of the end of the review test sounded, and the few of them were teleported back to the dormitory again.
After regaining their spirits, they were immediately overwhelmed by exhaustion. After watching two movies, they felt as if they had run two marathons, and were so tired that they didn't even have the strength to lift a finger.
[Excessive fatigue: Your mental and physical strength have been greatly depleted. Continuing to overdraw will reduce a large amount of health points.]
"This game has been turned on to the youth mode. It pays great attention to healthy living." Zheng Wanqing complained casually, propped herself up and staggered to wash up.
"Ah, wait!" Guo Guo forced his eyelids open, and his first reaction was to muster up all his strength to draw on the paper.
This is what she saw on the four "victims" with her Yin-Yang eyes at the "review site".
Tang Xinjue looked and saw that Guo Guo had drawn four headless stick figures. On each of the stick figures, there were steam-like lines rising.
"This is the black air coming out from the red marks on their necks. The red marks are where the necks are broken. Later, the black air rises from the necks."
Guo Guo was a little worried: "But there is one thing I don't know how to draw..."
She simply threw away the pen and gestured to Tang Xin Jue with her hands: "Yes, there is a red pattern in the black air, it seems to be a ghost painting, but I can't see it clearly..."
According to her description, Tang Xinjue drew a rune pattern with his own hands: "Is that so?"
Guo Guo nodded wildly: "Yes, yes, it's almost the same. The headless ghost at the beginning also had this pattern on his neck, but it was deeper and it was very uncomfortable to look at it."
After explaining everything, Guo Guo finally breathed a sigh of relief. He fell down exhausted, and soon fell asleep on the table.
“Everyone is too tired.”
Zhang You finished counting the supplies and sighed when he saw this scene. He called Tang Xinjue: "Actually, I have an idea."
"We've been so tense since we entered the game," Zhang You said seriously. "Every time we open our eyes, we worry about our lives. Apart from the necessary physical recovery, we have almost no extra rest time."
Especially for Guo Guo, who has a low "immunity" to terrifying things, he is in panic and stimulated most of the time. Even if he is physically fine, he will be mentally overwhelmed if he continues like this.
Zhang You discussed with her: "If possible, can we spare a day to review and rest?"
Tang Xin Jue was silent for a moment, and then said: "You are right, I indeed overlooked this point."
…Years of nightmares had made her accustomed to this kind of mental pressure, but it was her roommate’s first time experiencing it.
A string that is always tense is more likely to break. Maybe it's time to take a break after this exam.
Putting aside the discussion for the moment, after a quick wash, the dormitory quickly fell into sleep.
"Ding-ling-ling~"
At the sound of the alarm clock, Jin Wen rubbed her eyes and sat up.
But she froze immediately, and everything in her mind reappeared:
Yellow paper and runes, the roommate’s falling head, and screams of terror…
Is it a dream?
"Jin Wen, get up quickly. We're going to be late. Let's go first."
Several roommates shouted from downstairs, and then the dormitory door was opened and closed.
Jin Wen came back to her senses and responded vaguely, while quickly putting on her clothes and thinking. When her memory came back, she quickly realized that the yellow paper method was a week ago, and now the paper package is still hanging on the dormitory door.
It seems that it is really just a nightmare. Jin Wen felt relieved and smiled with relief.
Then she put on a turtleneck sweater to hide the red marks on her neck.
The author has something to say:
Headless Ghost: This year's candidates have no moral integrity
