Capítulo 977: Chapter 975: Seize
The second act of “Halloween Eve” officially begins filming.
The plot will return to two years ago, telling the origin story of the second male lead.
Perhaps he rested well last night,
or perhaps he was influenced by William’s actor’s charisma and had experience performing in a circus,
or perhaps malice awakened in the current environment,
Yi Chen’s performance was astonishing, far exceeding the expectations of the director and the crew members.
Initially, his portrayal of an ordinary young man visiting an old house with his friends was spot on, as was the momentary flutter upon first seeing the witch, really like an innocent young man.
Even the director praised repeatedly, “No wonder that guy William looks so similar, his acting is indeed good, it’s somewhat wasted on our kind of cult movie.”
As for Lene, having been preloaded with witch consciousness in a dream and rehearsing almost seven hours last night, her entire performance was quite smooth, with only two cuts.
In one day, almost half of the filming of the second act was completed, and if this continues, it’s estimated that filming will be completed in less than half a month, and the film could be completed in a month.
“OK, today’s shooting went very smoothly!
Mr. Yi is indeed the talent I’ve valued, I’ve already started to look forward to how much of a box office this film could achieve after its release, perhaps even reaching our crew’s total box office goal in advance.”
When filming ended, the director proactively came to pat Yi Chen’s shoulder, beaming with enthusiasm.
“Later, I’ll arrange the highest standard lunch for you guys, feel free to let me know what movie you want to see in the future, I promise I won’t get angry this time.”
“Hmm.”
Even though Yi Chen inherently disliked acting, receiving confirmation and applause from the crew members gave him a slight sense of pleasure.
The lead actor Bator also removed “Miles’ Mask” and had a group of short-statured special personnel take it to that mysterious storage room.
Then he rushed over, eagerly asking, “Are you guys coming tonight? How about continuing the dream?”
Yi Chen only gave a vague reply, “We’ll see.”
“Great~ I’ll be waiting for you here!”
If Bator continues like this, Yi Chen might get to access the mask sooner and even uncover the crew’s secrets.
However, just when everything was proceeding as expected,
Yi Chen, just after receiving a warm meal intending to toss it in the hotel, suddenly looked towards the direction of the crew base exit, instinctively sensing something, some kind of danger was approaching.
He closed his eyes and breathed,
With a golden breath exhaled from his mouth, receiving information from outside the door,
“Four people… no, five people.”
The alarm for the entire base followed by ringing, the crew members tidying up the shooting site all stopped their work, their facial skin subtly twitching as if their original masks were growing out from below.
The director, sweating profusely, made a stride to Yi Chen’s side, “What did you do last night? How did you get into this kind of trouble…”
Yi Chen did not respond, just silently waited.
After a while,
A family of four dressed in red sportswear, holding hands and smiling, arrived at the filming site.
Before the director could talk about the rules between disasters, the ‘mother’ took out a paper with special characters from her pocket.
“We have obtained the highest authorization, here to take away the outsider crew member – [Lorrian].
The document can be checked casually, do not delay our time.
Any obstructive action will be considered disrespectful to the document signer, please do not act rashly, after all, you are bottom-level disasters, not yet reaching the true definition of disaster.”
During her speech, the family of four had already started looking at Lorrian among the crowd, just their gaze sent chills down people’s spines.
The crew facing such blatant mockery emitted killing intent, yet dare not act.
At this moment, Yi Chen transmitted through breath to Lorrian’s ear: “The crew can’t protect you, find a way to escape back to the hotel, maybe the manager has a solution.”
Lorrian did not respond, his facial muscles subtly twitching, as an origin of the New Moon, now reduced to needing to rely entirely on others to survive.
After last night’s contact, Lorrian knew well,
the illusion technique against such existence can only work once, this time they came prepared, there’s no way to escape through illusions again.
Even if he managed to miraculously escape to the hotel, would the manager truly offer protection? From the tone of the Eighth Disaster, the signer must be a higher status existence, possibly even the pinnacle of all malice.
He didn’t intend to flee but pulled out a string of red crosses from his pocket, scattering them in a circle.
Suddenly, a chaotic aura never felt before permeated the filming site, the scarlet glow shot straight to the sky.
Tens of scarlet nurses were now surrounding Lorrian, in a kneeling posture.
The skin of Lorrian’s real body began to decay, tentacles sprouting from within forming a new body, his head slid off like liquid, replaced by a red moon symbolizing chaos.
Unfolding four arms,
The red moon head emanated an eerie glow,
some kind of world’s teleportation gate gradually imprinted in reality under the glow, standing in the theater.
Both the crew and the Eighth Disaster were stunned,
they as disasters had never seen such a scene and such a bizarre, indescribable hyper-geometric stone door,
they could even hear something extremely dangerous behind the stone door whispering, writhing, eager to emerge.
Just as the stone door was about to open, a figure suddenly flashed by the side of the Eighth Disaster, avoiding everyone and reaching Lorrian’s side.
A hand dressed in white gloves gently placed on the shoulder, lips stained red softly whispered a voice Lorrian was most familiar with into his ear.
“Now is not the time to go all out, be obedient and go with them… It’s just that last night you exposed your trait which coincidentally got involved.
But, this might not necessarily be a bad thing.
Currently, there’s no breakthrough method, so Lorrian just go with them obediently.”
“Wi… lliam!”
Lorrian’s twisted form roared William’s name,
The stone door shook from the intense wave of will and opened a gap, from which numerous twisted arms or things that could be called arms reached out towards William.
Pa!
A hand blade chopped onto Lorrian’s neck, corresponding to the lower edge of the blood moon.
Though it was just an ordinary chop, it induced a thought turbulence, a vortex from within thoughts making Lorrian fall into it, losing consciousness.
The dream connection was severed,
the blood moon no longer cast its glow,
the Gate of Chaos about to open and those monstrous hands vanished,
with Lorrian collapsing unconscious, the nurses on the side did not attack like maniacs but sat on the ground in a very obedient posture, seemingly watching their teacher, even feeling somewhat excited and thrilled.
Pa!
William snapped his fingers, forming a tiny black hole with finger friction to collect all the nurses. After easily resolving it, he made an ‘OK’ gesture towards the Eighth Disaster.
As William dragged Lorrian by one foot single-handedly, preparing to leave the theater like this,
Pa! He suddenly felt a great force on his shoulder, someone blocking his way.
“Mr. Yi, don’t… hmm? Who are you? Isn’t it supposed to be Mr. Yi stopping me from leaving in this situation?”
The one blocking William wasn’t Yi Chen,
but the current lead actor of the crew, Bandi Batol.